Question follow-through · 25099
Barbecues: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of fires caused by disposable barbecues in Dorset in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of fires caused by disposable barbecues in Dorset in each of the last five years.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2026
Answer published
Information on fires caused by barbecues is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (table FIRE0602) and can be filtered by Fire and Rescue Authority area, including Dorset. Data on fires specifically caused by disposable ba...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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