Results 1-20 of 26 for smoking speaker:Nick Raynsford

Emergency Services (Regionalisation) (12 Oct 2005)

Nick Raynsford: ...of the White Paper, the legislation and the additional funds, to which my hon. Friend the Minister rightly alluded, that are being used to promote fire safety and ensure the greater installation of smoke alarms, particularly in vulnerable people's homes. It is astonishing that the hon. Member for Meriden referred to cuts in expenditure on emergency services. When the Conservative party was...

Emergency Services (Regionalisation) (12 Oct 2005)

Nick Raynsford: ...to the site, they cannot save those lives. Prevention is critical if those lives are to be saved. If, as a result of making savings on fire control, some of those resources can be used to put more smoke alarms into vulnerable people's homes and to carry out more fire prevention work in the first place, more lives will saved. This is a sensible policy that is designed to give the best results.

Written Ministerial Statements — Deputy Prime Minister: Private Finance Initiative (Fire and Rescue Authorities) (16 Mar 2005)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...system and regional control centres and up to £188 million in mass decontamination and urban search and rescue equipment and training. Plus we have announced a £25 million fire prevention package to provide free smoke alarms and fire safety advice to one and a quarter million vulnerable households, mainly in deprived areas, in England over the period 2004–08. Every English...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Fire Prevention (12 Jan 2005)

Mr Nick Raynsford: The Community Fire Safety Innovation Fund supports local initiatives to reduce fire deaths; the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is funding free smoke detectors and fire suppression equipment; Revenue Support Grant takes account of authorities' prevention activity; the research programme identifies good practice; the National Community Fire Safety Centre provides publicity material and...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Derbyshire Fire Authority (10 Jan 2005)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...grants of £50,544 from the Community Fire Safety (CFS) Innovation Fund and £95,642 capital to establish a programme of Home Fire Risk Checks targeted on the most vulnerable households and combined with installation of free 10 year smoke alarms and, where justified, automated fire suppression systems. It also received £33,796 from the Arson Control Forum Innovation Fund in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Rescue Control Centres (20 Oct 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...the estimated cost of dealing with incidents on the regional control basis. The savings that will come from that can be ploughed back into life-saving measures such as fire prevention work, installing smoke alarms and so on. Our approach is all about improving safety and saving lives, which I hope my hon. Friend recognises.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Smoke Alarms (4 Oct 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: Most fire and rescue services already undertake work to encourage and publicise fire prevention, including installing smoke alarms for vulnerable households. Smoke alarm ownership in the home has increased from nine per cent. in 1987 to the current level of 80 per cent. The National Fire and Rescue Framework sets out the Government's objectives to increase smoke alarm ownership. Fire and...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departmental Duty Officers (14 Jun 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...(e.g. a place of sport or entertainment, shopping complex, etc.) or from care premises (e.g. a hospital, nursing home, etc.). C. A fire in which abnormally fast or extensive spread of flame, smoke or heat was caused or assisted by: C.1 the structure of the building (including linings, voids, or other constructional features); or C.2 the systems or plant installed within the building. D. A...

Written Answers — Health: Fires (Care Homes) (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...Tyne and Wear 47 31 39 47 43 48 West Midlands 108 101 94 76 71 63 West Yorkshire 19 31 12 26 19 25 London 75 68 56 58 43 49 (10) Including late call and heat and smoke damage incidents. (11) Figures are based on sampled data weighted to agreed FRA totals. (12) Excludes strike days in November 2002. Source: Fire and Rescue Authority returns to ODPM.

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...initiative by Cheshire fire service that was targeted at vulnerable members of the community. Merseyside fire service has carried out 160,000 home fire risk assessments and fitted 250,000 smoke alarms since 1999. Deaths nearly halved, from 20 to 11 by 2002. Merseyside has also introduced innovative arrangements to help promote fire safety among the minority ethnic population in the...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...is that it summons a fire engine because it rings automatically in the fire station. Malfunctioning in that case has much more serious consequences. As my hon. Friend said, the majority of domestic smoke alarms function properly. They are lifesavers and by getting into the approximately one quarter of homes that remain without properly functioning smoke alarms, we can take an enormous step...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Arson (16 Jun 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...60 36 112 59 90 Wales 62 32 54 47 37 North Wales 17 15 8 6 0 Mid and West Wales 12 14 14 25 0 South Wales 33 3 31 16 37 (7) Including late call and heat and smoke damage incidents. (8) Figures are based on sampled data weighted to true brigade totals. (9) Provisional.

Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: New Clause 11 — Repeal of Section 2A of Local Government Act 1986 (10 Mar 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...of people to city centres in daytime and returning to the suburbs at night. They do not reflect the changing nature and location of industry or more effective fire safety measures. For example, smoke alarms and sprinklers are now found in many buildings. For much of the time, the current standards determine that fire service resources are targeted on protecting unoccupied buildings and not...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Fire Service Deaths (5 Mar 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ... 171 3 17.5 0 0 Dumfries 87 0 0.0 0 0 (3) A primary fire is any fire in a building or vehicle and/or a fire which involved casualties or rescues. Includes late call and heat and smoke damage incidents (not recorded prior to 1994). (4) Provisional. (5) The fatality figures for 2001–02 are likely to be revised as later information becomes available. Estimates for the...

Public Bill Committee: Local Government Bill: New clause 13 - Fire brigade establishment schemes: (13 Feb 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...for the high levels of deaths at night is that many people are overwhelmed by fires that take hold before they are even aware and which begin when they are asleep, or they are overwhelmed by the smoke before they wake up. In those situations the only way to achieve a dramatic reduction in deaths, which we must achieve, is through more effective prevention: getting more smoke alarms into...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Arson (22 Jan 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...,043 47 North Wales 635 275 23 1,153 689 0 Mid and West Wales 1,523 991 18 2,088 1,518 4 South Wales 3,092 1,791 33 4,173 2,836 42 (20) Including late call and heat and smoke damage incidents. (21) Figures are based on sampled data weighted to true brigade totals. (22) Figures are provisional

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Fire Deaths (20 Jan 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...requested are in the following tables. These data indicate the importance of fire prevention. The Government believe that each household should have a properly considered escape plan and working smoke alarms; this is key to reducing deaths and injuries while people sleep. Primary fires(21) and deaths, UK, 1997–2001 Yearly totals Number Fires Deaths Death rate per...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Smoke Alarms (13 Jan 2003)

Mr Nick Raynsford: Findings from the X2000 British Crime Survey" suggest that 77 per cent. of households in England and Wales were equipped with at least one smoke alarm. 23 per cent. of households were not equipped with a smoke alarm. Due to the nature of the question asked in the British Crime Survey, it is not possible to ascertain what proportion of households were equipped with a working alarm. However,...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Fire Service (28 Nov 2002)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ...of escape in case of fire". In addition, authorities undertake on a non-statutory basis such activities as fire safety education, community-based risk assessments, arson reduction initiatives and smoke alarm installation programmes. (iii) Fire authorities currently enforce the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 as amended by the Fire Precautions...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Domestic Fires (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Nick Raynsford: ... Strathclyde 39 Highland and Islands 3 Grampian 5 Tayside 5 Lothian and Borders 12 Fife 3 Central 0 Dumfries 0 (1) Including late call and heat and smoke damage incidents. (2) Including caravans, houseboats and other non-building permanent dwellings. (3) Data are provisional and fatality figures are likely to be revised downwards as later...