Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling fire services personnel to detect mental health problems among older people during home fire safety visits.

The Home Office is working with the National Fire Chiefs Council to improve Home Fire Safety Visits and ensure a nationally consistent approach across fire and rescue services. This will include tailoring each intervention to the individuals within a particular home, while still allowing for local adaptation in line with local priorities. Where fire and rescue services identify particular issues or concerns during home fire safety visits, they can signpost people to local agencies such as NHS partners or local authorities.