Fire Risk Assessments

Mr. Hayes
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which estimate she has made of the cost to Government to date of making fire risk assessments.

Angela E. Smith
We have not sought to ascertain what Government Departments and bodies may have spent on making fire risk assessments of their premises. Nonetheless, we would expect the costs to be similar to those estimated for business and identified in the Regulatory Impact Assessment that accompanied the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. I have placed copies of that assessment in the House Library.