Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information the Government holds on the number of fires in buildings potentially caused by disposable vapes.

Data collected through the Fire and Rescue Service Incident RecordingSystem (IRS) does not include data on whether fire incidents attended were caused by or involved disposable vapes.

The Home Office collects data on incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs), with this data including the cause of the fire and the source of ignition but disposable vapes are not currently an option for source of ignition, the lowest level of granularity is smoking materials. This data is published in a variety of publications, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables