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"Lobster" writes:
Where do these stats come from? How many actual fires are we talking about?
I was under the impression - maybe wrongly - that faulty electrical
installations are really not an issue; and that it is dodgy appliances that
caused problems.

True.
I put the figures in my response to the original consultation document,
which came from a variety of sources (Home Office mainly from what I
recall)... http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/buildregs.pdf

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Andrew Gabriel