Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is his Department's policy to assess the (a) economic and (b) social costs of all fires.

In 2011 the Department of Communities and Local Government published the Economic Cost of Fire: estimates for 2008, Fire research report 3/2011, see:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121105004836/http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1838338.pdf
The Home Office will review the economic and social costs of fire as and when necessary to assist in the development of policy.