<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:26 pm on 20 September 2017.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:26, 20 September 2017

And on the same theme, in response to a short debate by Dawn Bowden in May in relation to electrical safety—obviously, this is pertinent here because a washing machine was involved in the situation involving the fire at Grenfell—you said that you would be commissioning research in Wales into fires caused by electricity. I want to know what’s happening with that research and who you will be engaging with it. When will that be updated to AMs? Because I know from a letter that I’ve seen to Electrical Safety First, from you on 27 July, that you said that you will, and I quote, ‘be in touch should their advice be necessary.’ I would have thought it would be integral, would it not, to get advice from an organisation like that, that specialises in electrical safety. I would urge you now, here today, Cabinet Secretary, to meet with them to hear their concerns, because they are very proactive in this field, and to come up with that piece of research that Dawn Bowden and others have called for.