Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department informed Campsfield House operators Mitie of the advice of the Oxfordshire Fire Service that sprinklers should be fitted there.

The Chief Fire Officer of Oxfordshire wrote to the previous operator of Campsfield House, GEO, in 2007. Mitie were not made aware of this correspondence before the incident last year. Following the incident, sprinklers have now been fitted throughout the centre.