Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of house fires caused by electrical sources of ignition.

Home Office officials routinely discuss electrical safety issues with the NFCC to ensure opportunities to drive down electrical fires and promote electrical safety are utilised.

The Department has facilitated close links between the National Fire Chiefs Council, product safety officials at the Department for Business and the sector-led Register My Appliance initiative to encourage fire and rescue services to increase the focus on electrical and product safety within their engagement with members of the public.

The Home Office’s national fire safety campaign, run in partnership with the NFCC, collaborates with Electrical Safety First to run the annual Electrical Fire Safety Week. The Week is used by fire and rescue services and others to promote electrical fire safety messages.