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Banbury’s MP hints that disposable barbecues could be banned
06/04/2022
Victoria Prentis says an issue remains in the way that barbecues are used in the countryside
Banbury’s MP’s Victoria Prentis has hinted that disposable barbecues could be banned. Speaking in her role as an Environment Minister, Mrs Prentis told parliament that research was being commissioned to examine the role that barbecues – and specifically disposable barbecues – played in wildfire incidents.
Data from the Home Office says that around 4% of accidental fires can be linked to barbecue use.
Mrs Prentis said: “Disposable barbecues, if used correctly, do not, in themselves, pose a wildfire risk; it is when they are left unattended, or used recklessly, that the risk occurs.”
The comments were made during a debate on a motion put forward by Holly Lynch, the Labour MP for Halifax, which proposed consideration of the merits of banning disposable barbecues.
Mrs Prentis said: “What is clear is that many hundreds of families and groups of friends use disposable barbecues responsibly, and the National Fire Chiefs Council is not yet asking for an outright ban.
“However, clearly, an issue remains in the way that barbecues are used in the countryside, which proactive campaigning has not yet managed to resolve.”
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam
Les parker On 06/04/2022 at 9:56 pm
Typical of the mp for banbury.
More important to talk about bbq than the state that her party are doing to this country. And I’ve voted Conservative all my life I’m 73yr old but I will never ever vote or believe a Conservative candidate ever again
The pensioners will teach her and her peers at the elections.
Shaun Badby On 08/04/2022 at 2:22 pm
If she is worried about the environment. Why does she not take the bull by the horns and sort out the traffic problems with all the new houses being built and no new roads or transport links like trams trains scooter / push bike paths. They could easily bang a tram link in from Drayton on the old iron stone railway. And send it down past old alcan factory and along bi directional lines in to down via train station and along …./ tramway estate. terminating by Morrisons it could be called the happy shopper for Tesco and Morrisons but that’s probably out of her thinking process being an mp . Would be ideal for schools the shops the lot. But there we go thinking of little bbqs is more easy to push though parliament and waste even more of our tax than the real issues of Banbury people.