Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 30 April 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will commission an impact assessment of (a) the effectiveness of the installation of sprinkler systems in homes in reducing deaths from fire and (b) the cost-effectiveness of retrofitting automatic sprinklers in all social housing.
A Government funded study looking at the effectiveness of sprinklers in homes was published in 2005. We have no plans to commission any further work in this respect.
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