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<p>Fire is a devolved matter and Home Office is responsible only for fire in England.</p><p>Home
Office publishes incident level statistics on dwelling fires in England including
cause of fire and ignition power, and on fire-related fatalities in England including
cause of fire. These can be found in the ‘Dwelling fires dataset’ and ‘Fire-related
dataset’ here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-incident-level-datasets"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-incident-level-datasets</a></p><p>From
these, the data in the tables below can be extracted. Record level information is
published from 2010/11 - although the national Incident Recording System began in
April 2009 there are a few minor issues with the 2009/10 records which mean that,
while statistics at higher levels are robust, some of the incident level records are
not of a sufficient quality to publish.</p><p>The most recent estimates of the economic
cost of fire were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government
for 2008. This can be found here: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121105004836/http:/www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1838338.pdf"
target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121105004836/http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1838338.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p>Table 1. Number of dwelling fires caused by ‘faulty fuel supplies’ or ‘faulty
appliances and leads’, where the ignition power was either electricity or gas.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Ignition power</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Electric</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Gas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>%
of all dwelling fires</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>% of all
dwelling fires</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>6,778</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>307</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>6,595</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>6,851</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>272</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>6,462</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>6,487</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>6,247</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>6,374</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>6,386</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table 2. Number
of fire-related fatalities in dwelling fires caused by ‘faulty fuel supplies’ or ‘faulty
appliances and leads’</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Fire-related
fatalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>%
of all dwelling fire fatalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note
that 71 of the 92 fire-related fatalities in dwelling fires caused by ‘faulty fuel
supplies’ or ‘faulty appliances and leads’ in 2017/18 (Table 2) are from the Grenfell
Tower fire on 14 June 2017.</p>
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