Rescue Services: Sky Lanterns
(asked on 14th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the definition of 'incidents' on page 18 of the report Sky lanterns and helium balloons, published by his Department in May 2013, how many such incidents were caused by sky lanterns in 2013.
This question was answered on 17th July 2014
In 2013 the number of reported incidents likely to have been caused by sky lanterns was 129. This figure was collated using the same definition of an incident as used in the statistic of an incident in the report prepared for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Welsh Government in May 2013.