Promoting Gas Safety

EDM number 303 in 2005-06, proposed by Jon Trickett on 13/06/2005.

That this House notes that deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning are entirely preventable but that around 30 people a year die from it and hundreds more are injured; further notes that the best way of preventing carbon monoxide poisoning is to ensure that all gas appliances are checked regularly by a CORGI-registered installer; is alarmed that too many appliances do not receive a regular service; believes that this potentially endangers lives; congratulates organisations such as CORGI and CO-Gas Safety on their efforts to improve consumer awareness but believes that much more needs to be done; calls on the Government to ensure that energy companies make good on their pledge to fund an extensive awareness campaign; and urges all organisations with a stake in improving gas safety to consider ways of making more resources available for its promotion.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.