Smoke Alarms
(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of households did not have functioning smoke alarms in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
Each year MHCLG publishes data on the number and proportion of households in England with a working smoke alarm. Data up to and including 2018-19 are available in Annex Table 2.16 here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/859758/2018-19_Section_2_Housing_Stock_Annex_Tables.xlsx
The English Housing Survey also collects data on the prevalence of working smoke alarms in the West Midlands, see below for each of the last five years:
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| 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
percentage of homes with working smoke alarm West Midlands | 87.9 | 91.7 | 89.4 | 88.6 | 89.8 |
number of homes with working smoke alarm West Midlands (000s) | 2,041 | 2,148 | 2,137 | 2,125 | 2,199 |
The Department does not collect data on the number and proportion of households in Coventry North East constituency or Coventry with or without working smoke alarms.