PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Schools: Fires (17 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Priority Schools Building Programme school fires there have been since the beginning of the 2017 Parliament; and how many of those schools (a) had sprinkler systems installed and (b) had sprinkler systems installed as part of the school rebuild.

Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)

The Department has no recorded incidences of school fires on the Priority School Building Programme.

The Home Office publishes data relating to fires in buildings other than dwellings, which includes categories for educational establishments. The most recent published figures cover the 2010/11–2017/18 financial years inclusive. The data can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables.

The 2017/18 data shows that the incidence of fire across the school estate, affecting the whole building, is low.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
20 December 2018