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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
1994–958,556
1995–966,918
1996–977,555
1997–987,697
1998–998,352
1999–20008,489
2000–019,079
2001–029,641
2002–039,772
2003–049,673




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.
2004–05

Number
Buckinghamshire1
Cheshire23
Cleveland54
Cumbria2
Dorset1
Greater Manchester188
Hampshire6
Isle of Wight1
Kent10
Lancashire6
Lincolnshire1
Merseyside135
Mid and West Wales5
Norfolk1
Nottinghamshire33
South Wales37
South Yorkshire20
Staffordshire1
Tyne and Wear2
West Midlands106
Total633

2005–06

Number
Buckinghamshire1
Cheshire2
Cleveland3
County Durham and Darlington1
Devon1
Gloucestershire1
Lancashire1
Leicestershire2
London3
Merseyside26
Nottinghamshire2
Royal Berkshire2
South Wales3
South Yorkshire6
Staffordshire1
West Midlands9
Total64

 
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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:
(a) Property fires (buildings)(b) Vehicle fires
(road vehicles)
1997–9826,04536,045
1998–9923,85842,631
1999–200025,99054,499
2000–0124,96559,057
2001–0228,16468,634
2002–03(33)25,49267,296
2003–04(34)26,48158,645


(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.
AuthorityNumber of LA owned non decent dwellings at 1 April 2004Cost to make all dwellings decent at 1 April 2004 (£000)
Barking and Dagenham11,091129,000
Barnet6,04716,329
Brent4,31381,425
Camden23,324301,321
City of London1,0152,455
Croydon3,32524,251
Ealing5,59886,384
Enfield3,71012,289
Greenwich17,693122,993
Hackney18,488320,000
Hammersmith and Fulham3,54826,804
Haringey9,74145,366
Harrow2,6858,962
Havering2,3914,939
Hillingdon3,40534,047
Hounslow5,25834,110
Islington16,829192,272
Kensington and Chelsea303642,968
Kingston upon Thames1,423(35)
Lambeth12,74741,237
Lewisham16,259137,854
Merton1,8526,350
Newham9,812142,901
Redbridge1,3073,121
Southwark20,070405,579
Sutton3,50627,921
Tower Hamlets18,218197,307
Waltham Forest9,226168,620
Wandsworth7956,259
Westminster4,27280,675


(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:
Supported borrowingMajor repairs allowance (introduced in 2001–02)Disabled facilities grantPrivate sector renewal grantTotal
1997–9812,2153111,40213,928
1998–9914,3413961,15015,887
1999–200014,1094351,26515,809
2000–0127,652547028,199
2001–0218,69713,403567032,667
2002–0320,12713,44752615834,258
2003–0415,92513,79955628630,566
2004–0512,25312,6434751725,388
2005–0612,75312,272484025,509

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:
Private sector housing renewal assistance given in Haringey (including DFGs)


Total number of grants completed
Total local authority expenditure on grants (£000)
1997–983872,956
1998–994322,585
1999–20004212,847
2000–013334,178
2001–025865,906
2002–035213,727
2003–047177,527









 
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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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