Jim Knight, the Secretary of State for Schools, announced to a sprinkler seminar in the House of Commons in London that the British Government had introduced a new policy regarding the fitting of sprinklers in schools. New schools or those which undergo a major refurbishment using public funds will have to complete an analysis using a risk assessment tool to determine whether they should be fitted with a sprinkler system. He stated that it is the Government's expectation that in the majority of cases this process will lead to sprinklers being fitted.