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Fire Service
John McDonnell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many road accidents involving the rescue of a person or persons were carried out by the fire service in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [2064]
Jim Fitzpatrick:
The number of road traffic incidents which involved the rescue of a person or persons by the Fire and Rescue Service in England is set out as follows.
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| Number of incidents | |
|---|---|
| 1994–95 | 8,556 |
| 1995–96 | 6,918 |
| 1996–97 | 7,555 |
| 1997–98 | 7,697 |
| 1998–99 | 8,352 |
| 1999–2000 | 8,489 |
| 2000–01 | 9,079 |
| 2001–02 | 9,641 |
| 2002–03 | 9,772 |
| 2003–04 | 9,673 |
Source:
ODPM annual returns
John McDonnell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many people were rescued or led to safety at chemical or fuel spills or leaks or suspected chemical or fuel spills or leaks by the Fire Service in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [2065]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Information is not collected centrally on incidents where people are rescued or led to safety from spills or leaks.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many attacks on firefighters were recorded in each fire authority in each year since 1997. [2446]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Attacks on firefighters have only been recorded since 1 April 2004. In 2004–05 a total of 633 attacks were recorded. For the months of April and May 2005, 64 attacks have been recorded. The following tables set out details of these attacks by fire authority.
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Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many deliberate (a) property and (b) vehicle fires were recorded in each year since 1997. [2449]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The number of deliberate fires attended by Fire and Rescue services in England is as follows:
(33)Includes estimates for 15 strike days.
(34)Provisional figures
Note:
Figures derived from a grossed up 20 per cent. sample of fires attended.
Source:
Fire and Rescue service FDR1 returns to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what progress has been made on the Firelink scheme; how much the scheme has cost; what resources have been allocated to it; and if he will make a statement. [2439]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) is in the final stage of discussions with the proposers following receipt of best and final offers. Our aim is to secure a radio system that meets the needs of the FRS and provides value for money for the taxpayer. The imperative is to run a fair and open competition under EU procurement procedures. Some £9 million has been spent on work to replace high risk items of brigades current radio systems to ensure that they continue to be operationally effective until they can be replaced by Firelink. Cost information relating to the main procurement is commercially sensitive. The multi-disciplinary project team comprises ODPM staff, secondees from the fire and rescue services and technical consultants.
Hazardous Waste Treatment Plants
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what planning applications have been made in (a) 2002, (b) 2003, (c) 2004 and (d) 2005 to date for hazardous waste treatment plants; and what the capacity and location of each plant is. [3451]
Yvette Cooper:
The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Housing
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many and what percentage of children with (a) a disability and (b) a serious medical condition that requires adapted housing live in accommodation that is not fit for purpose in each English region. [2434]
Yvette Cooper: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many local authority-owned properties in each London borough do not meet the Government's decent homes standard; and what the estimated cost is of bringing them up to that standard. [2523]
Yvette Cooper: The number of local authority-owned properties that do not meet the Government's decent homes standard, along with the estimated cost of bringing them up to that standard, are shown in the following table, for each London borough. The data are as reported to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the 2004 HIP Business Plan Statistical Appendices.
(35)Indicates missing data
Anne Main: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of levying VAT on the refurbishment and enlargement of older homes but not on new build homes on (a) the character of (i) St Albans and (ii) market towns with a significant stock of older homes, (b) the number of houses built before 1930 that are demolished and (c) the implementation of regionally imposed planning targets; and if he will make a statement. [1391]
Yvette Cooper:
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has not made these assessments.
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Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many homes have (a) no and (b) partial central heating in each English region; and what percentage this is of the dwelling stock. [2436]
Yvette Cooper: The available information, for homes with no central or programmable heating within each region in 2001, is published at Table 11, page 30 of the English House Condition Survey 2001: Regional Report (ODPM, 2003).
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) how much funding for housing the London borough of Haringey council has received in each financial year since the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 came into force; and if he will make a statement; [3974]
(2) how many applicants for funding under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 within the London borough of Haringey have been (a) successful, (b) refused and (c) put on a waiting list; and if he will make a statement. [3975]
Yvette Cooper: Government funding in support of the London borough of Haringey's housing capital investment programme since 1996 has been (in £1,000s) as follows:
From 2000–01 Government support for private sector housing renewal grants was no longer ring fenced and was included in the total for supported borrowing, except for residual payments relating to committed expenditure in renewal areas.
The Government do not collect centrally the number of applications for renewal grants or information on waiting lists. The number and the total value of renewal grants under the 1996 Act completed in Haringey in each year since 1997 are as follows:
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Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many people are on waiting lists to be rehoused in each London borough. [2525]
Yvette Cooper: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on 7 June 2005, Official Report, columns 492–93W.
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