Sources of Statistics

Association of British Insurers, 51 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HQ, UK
The statistics helpdesk with any queries about ABI data:
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7216 7390
Email: abistats@abi.org.uk

For all other ABI queries please contact the ABI switchboard:
Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7600 3333
Email: info@abi.org.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 7696 8999

CIPFA, 3 Robert Street, London, WC2, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7543 5600
Fax: +44 (0)20 7543 5700
Email: corporate@cipfa.org.uk
Web: www.cipfa.org

CIPFA Statistical Information Service, Institute of Public Finance Ltd., No. 1 Croydon, 2-16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 0XT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8667 1144
Fax: +44 (0)20 8681 6741
Email: sisinfo@ipf.co.uk
Web: https://www.cipfa.org/services/cipfastats/data-sets/fire-and-rescue-service

Includes, for example:

• numbers of fire deaths,
• fire-fighter numbers, broken down by type (professional, volunteers, etc.),
• equipment availability, by numbers in broad categories, and
• provision of data both for participating countries and for the largest cities in those countries.

Prof. N. Brushlinsky, 007 095 450 2753, e-mail: albrus@online.de
Dr P Wagner, 0049 30 5649 7792, e-mail: albrus@t-online.de

The EHCS is a national survey collecting data on the physical condition of properties, the quality of the local environment and households' characteristics and financial circumstances. Follow up exercises collect property valuations and interviews with landlords. Data are collected on smoke alarm presence. In 1996 questions were also asked on households' experience of fire, although these questions were dropped in the 2001 sweep.

In April 2008 the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) was integrated with the Survey of English Housing (SEH) resulting in a new survey known as the English Housing Survey (EHS).

Like the previous EHCS, it has three component surveys: a household interview, followed by a physical inspection and a market value survey of a sub-sample of the properties.

Communities and Local Government (CLG)
EHS Project Management
2/B5 Eland House
Bressenden Place
London SW1E 5DU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 944 3526
Email: ehs@communities.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingsurveys/englishhousecondition

The EHS is a national survey collecting information on households' members, family relationships, attitudes towards housing and individuals' experiences in both their current and previous housing. With the EHCS, it provides much of the data for DTLR's housing policy development and evaluation. A fire module was incorporated into the survey in 2004/05 and 2006/07.

The Fire Module included questions on Fire risk factors (use of chip pans, candles, heaters etc), Experience of fire (Number of fires in last year, location of fire start, cause of fire, time of fire, was the FRS called, how discovered etc.) and Fire Safety measures (number and type of smoke alarms, when last tested etc.).

In April 2008 the Survey of English Housing (SEH) merged with the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) to form the new English Housing Survey (EHS). To find out more go to the English Housing Survey (EHS) section.

The final fieldwork year for the SEH was 2007/08. These pages provide information about the SEH results, published reports and live tables.

The SEH was a continuous household survey that collected information from nearly 20,000 households each year about the characteristics of their housing and their attitudes to housing and related issues.

The data is aggregated to large geographical areas to maintain anonymity.

If you would like further information about the EHS or wish to be added to the mailing list for our electronic newsletter email: ehs@communities.gsi.gov.uk or Tel: +44 (0)207 944 3526.

Communities and Local Government (CLG)
English Housing Survey (EHS formerly Survey of English Housing)
Housing Data and Statistics Division
1/J2 Eland House
Bressenden Place
London SW1E 5DU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 944 3526
Email: ehs@communities.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.communities.gov.uk/fire/researchandstatistics/firestatistics/fires
Web: www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingsurveys/englishhousecondition

Data collection has been discontinued. On 2nd May 2003 it was announced that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) would no longer fund the collection and publication of HASS/LASS data. To ensure that the existing data will continue to be made available to users, a complete copy of the database has been handed over to RoSPA. RoSPA's Information Centre began to answer all incoming HASS/LASS enquiries from 1st January 2004, and will continue to operate this service for five years.

Data from 2000, 2001 and 2002 is available to view on the web www.hassandlass.org.uk.

HASS/LASS database goes back to 1978, and for this data you would need to contact RoSPA's Information Centre see details below.

Information Centre, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), 28 Calthorpe Road, Birmingham, B15 1RP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 248 2066
Fax: +44 (0)121 248 2001
Email: Infocentre@rospa.com
Web: www.rospa.com

The Fire Protection Association, London Road, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0RH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1608 812 500
Fax: +44 (0)1608 812 501
Email: fpa@thefpa.co.uk
Web: www.thefpa.co.uk

Wildfire incidents (including forest fires) using the following data:

• Number of fires
• Area affected in Hectares
• Cause and motives
• Vegetation burnt (Property Types - Various)
• Spatial data (northings and eastings) of area burnt
• By Fire and Rescue Service area linked to NUTS 3 level
• IRS reference number

Sheila Ward
Tel: +44 (0)131 3340303
Web: www.forestry.gov.uk

HSE Infoline 0845 345 0055
or direct to Safety & Enforcement Statistics (1)
Heather Wake +44 (0)151 951 4864

Fire Statistics
Home Office
Firestatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk

Public

• https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics
• https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics#fire-prevention-and-protection-statistics:-latest-version
• https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics#fire-and-rescue-workforce-and-pensions-statistics:-latest-version

Fire Statistics
Home Office
Firestatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk

www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.html

Institution of Chemical Engineers, Davis Building, 165-189 Railway Terrace, Rugby CV21 3HQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1788 578214
Fax: +44 (0)1788 560833
Web: www.icheme.org

Colin Packer
Tel: 01454 616313
Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Public – Annual Statistics are published via “Statistical Bulletins”

Until the 2014 bulletin, information was presented at a national (Scotland) level, with key tables provided at Fire and Rescue Service level. Since the creation of SFRS in April 2013 information is provided at the national and local authority level.

Incident-based data returns are electronically submitted by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service through the UK data capture system IRS (Incident Recording System) throughout the year. The publication presents provisional data, with any later revisions in subsequent publications.

A consultation on the data included within this publication was completed in 2014 and is available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/fire-statistics-review/

Scottish Government

Email: National.Statistics@firescotland.gov.uk

https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are/statistics

This data is collected from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRSs) and includes basic Operational Statistics (number of fire safety audits, prosecutions & convictions and workforce statistics.

Until April 2013 the data covered the former eight Fire and Rescue Services in Scotland. Since the creation of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), data is now provided for the single SFRS.

Public – Annual Statistics are published via “Statistical Bulletins”

Information is presented at a national (Scotland) level, with key tables provided at Fire and Rescue Service level. Until the 2014 bulletin, information was presented at a national (Scotland) level, and at Fire and Rescue Service level. Since the creation of SFRS in April 2013 information is provided at the national and local authority level.

A consultation on the data included within this publication was completed in 2014 and is available at: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/06/9317

The recommendations from the review are being implemented in the latest bulletin.

Workforce data is collected from SFRS by both Scottish Government and CIPFA. In future, as far as possible, the data will be collected once and then used by both organisations, resulting in a reduced data burden and more consistent data.

Scottish Government

Email: National.Statistics@firescotland.gov.uk

https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are/statistics

Prof. Brian Woodrow, Director, World Fire Statistics Center, 3 Hickory Street, N1G2X2 Guelph, Ontario, CANADA
Tel: +1 519 821 5682
Email: wfsc@genevaassociation.org or woodrow@uoguelph.ca

WHOSIS, WHO Statistical Information System, presents the most recent and comprehensive health data on all of the 193 WHO Member States. The data, selected on the basis of quality and availability, relevance to global health, and comparability across member nations, cover over 50 core health indicators, which are organized into six major areas: mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, health system inputs, differentials in health outcome and coverage, as well as basic socio-demographic statistics. These are published in the World Health Statistics that is released in May of each year.

The section of its Mortality Data Base concerned with Causes of Death includes a line for "Deaths from accidents caused by smoke, fire and flames". The resulting figures, which are broken down by sex and by age group, are published annually for most developed countries, and some developing countries, which are WHO members (although the latest year for which data are available varies quite widely among countries). The figures are available online from http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis, and then by clicking successively on "Mortality database", "deaths by cause" and the name of the country in which one is interested.