Housing: Smoke Alarms

(asked on 10th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require homes in England to have interlinked smoke alarms.


Answered by
Lee Rowley Portrait
Lee Rowley
Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
This question was answered on 20th March 2023

Building Regulations require that buildings include appropriate provisions for the early warning of fire. To meet the guidance on fire safety in Approved Document B, all new dwellings, and existing dwellings undergoing building work, should have interlinked fire alarms.

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