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Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many refuse container fires resulted in deaths in (a) England and (b) Northamptonshire in each of the last five years. [270533]

Mr. Khan: The information requested is available in the following table.

Fatal refuse container fires( 1,2) by FRS area, UK, 2003-07( 3)
FRS area	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
England	0	0	0	1	2
Avon	0	0	0	0	0
Bedfordshire	0	0	0	0	0
Berkshire	0	0	0	0	0
Buckinghamshire	0	0	0	0	0
Cambridgeshire	0	0	0	0	0
Cheshire	0	0	0	0	0
Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	0	0	0	0	0
Cumbria	0	0	0	0	0
Derbyshire	0	0	0	0	0
Devon	0	0	0	0	0
Dorset	0	0	0	0	0
Durham	0	0	0	0	0
East Sussex	0	0	0	0	0
Essex	0	0	0	0	0
Gloucestershire	0	0	0	0	0
Greater Manchester	0	0	0	0	0
Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0
Hereford and Worcester	0	0	0	1	0
Hertfordshire	0	0	0	0	0
Humberside	0	0	0	0	0
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	0	0
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0
Kent	0	0	0	0	0
Lancashire	0	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	0	0	0	0	0
Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0	0
Merseyside	0	0	0	0	2
Norfolk	0	0	0	0	0
North Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	0
Northamptonshire	0	0	0	0	0
Northumberland	0	0	0	0	0
Nottinghamshire	0	0	0	0	0
Oxfordshire	0	0	0	0	0
Shropshire	0	0	0	0	0
Somerset	0	0	0	0	0
South Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	0
Staffordshire	0	0	0	0	0
Suffolk	0	0	0	0	0
Surrey	0	0	0	0	0
Tyne and Wear	0	0	0	0	0
Warwickshire	0	0	0	0	0
West Midlands	0	0	0	0	0
West Sussex	0	0	0	0	0
West Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	0
Wiltshire	0	0	0	0	0
(1) Including additional late call and heat and smoke damage incidents (not recorded prior to 1994). (2) Figures are based on sampled data weighted to true brigade totals. (3) Figures for 2007 are provisional and subject to change. Source: CLG Ref: 2009032_PM(03-07).sas 21APR09

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