Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government records the number of fires caused by electrical appliances in domestic dwellings.

National Statistics on the detailed causes and locations of fires are published annually in the “Fire Statistics England” statistical publication series. The most recent publication, for the 2014/15 reporting year, can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-statistics-england-april-2014-to-march-2015

Accompanying data tables can be found here:

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

The next publication of Fire Statistics England, for the 2015/16 reporting year, is due for release in 2017.

In 2014/15 there were 3,525 accidental dwelling fires in England in which the local Fire and Rescue Service recorded the source of ignition for the fire as “other electrical appliance”. This compares with 4,098 such fires in 2010/11.