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Disabled Facilities Grants

John Mann: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1)what plans the Government have to reform the Disabled Facilities Grant for (a) disabled children and (b) disabled adults; [4840]
 
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(2) when he plans to publish the conclusions of the review of the Disabled Facilities Grant; what research has been commissioned as part of the review; and whether the research will be made public. [4841]

Yvette Cooper: The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) is currently the subject of a wide ranging interdepartmental review. As part of this, a team from Bristol University are looking at the operation of the DFG system including the means test. Any proposals for change, as well as research and evidence will be published in due course.
 
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Fire Emergency Calls

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many (a) genuine and (b) malicious false alarm fire emergency calls have been received in (i) inner and (ii) Greater London in each year since 1999. [6362]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Information provided by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) showing the number of false fire alarms attended by the London Fire Brigade since 1999 is set out in the following table. Genuine false alarms are those generated by automatic equipment and by people believing that there was a fire (good intent).
Types of fire false alarm attended by London Fire Brigade

	1999–2000			2000–01
Borough	Automatic fire alarm	Good intent	Malicious	Automatic fire alarm	Good intent	Malicious
Inner London	27,467	7,063	6,870	29,333	7,182	6,255
Camden	3,446	621	414	3,682	565	331
City of London	936	89	27	1,014	100	26
Hackney	1,524	633	759	1,645	610	619
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,446	343	229	1,535	340	253
Haringey	1,256	441	532	1,297	429	455
Islington	1,606	527	515	1,726	504	512
Kensington and Chelsea	2,169	334	136	2,145	374	189
Lambeth	1,618	630	496	1,662	641	469
Lewisham	1,400	521	631	1,486	449	403
Newham	1,054	557	915	1,029	607	914
Southwark	1,854	602	539	1,902	694	596
Tower Hamlets	2,205	617	776	2,332	703	747
Wandsworth	1,739	401	332	1,725	421	266
Westminster	5,214	747	569	6,153	745	475
Outer London	19,328	6,734	5,517	19,321	6,651	5,015
Barking and Dagenham	319	360	449	298	427	368
Barnet	1,431	496	261	1,306	520	293
Bexley	676	323	275	695	262	230
Brent	1,263	411	429	1,312	380	482
Bromley	903	384	301	905	441	256
Croydon	1,065	446	386	1,138	434	352
Ealing	1,490	466	380	1,420	444	347
Enfield	1,059	448	387	1,302	389	337
Greenwich	697	528	550	792	531	482
Harrow	715	197	132	791	219	128
Havering	739	286	156	536	284	163
Hillingdon	2,875	485	369	2,788	481	242
Hounslow	1,063	427	327	994	408	311
Kingston-upon-Thames	1,029	176	148	1,151	162	92
Merton	667	257	168	662	251	146
Redbridge	799	305	230	741	316	209
Richmond-upon-Thames	934	220	66	894	202	82
Sutton	801	170	112	756	155	109
Waltham Forest	803	349	391	840	345	386
Borough not known	1,033	223	100	537	109	100
Total	47,828	14,020	12,487	49,191	13,942	11,370

	2001–02			2002–03
Borough	Automatic fire alarm	Good intent	Malicious	Automatic fire alarm	Good intent	Malicious
Inner London	30,281	7,800	6,577	29,505	7,559	5,615
Camden	4,039	669	431	3,716	616	311
City of London	1,097	110	33	992	99	19
Hackney	1,669	708	613	1,714	663	488
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,614	324	195	1,623	364	176
Haringey	1,395	468	526	1,431	481	584
Islington	1,585	563	404	1,717	494	392
Kensington and Chelsea	2,246	381	225	2,156	341	155
Lambeth	1,827	647	491	1,594	614	431
Lewisham	1,649	505	470	1,353	524	314
Newham	1,029	691	939	1,125	642	805
Southwark	1,841	763	603	1,819	733	507
Tower Hamlets	2,238	796	842	2,174	793	773
Wandsworth	1,729	428	325	1,794	410	241
Westminster	6,323	747	480	6,297	785	419
Outer London	20,454	7,494	5,594	19,644	6,976	4,378
Barking and Dagenham	303	509	397	420	428	325
Barnet	1,393	465	310	1,327	452	246
Bexley	755	344	197	690	319	170
Brent	1,273	403	379	1,191	407	376
Bromley	1,006	436	252	901	387	182
Croydon	1,134	530	439	1,136	476	269
Ealing	1,402	442	445	1,374	427	266
Enfield	1,421	505	488	1,285	475	461
Greenwich	1,023	626	587	1,033	537	404
Harrow	1,042	243	173	1,061	235	138
Havering	552	363	136	554	330	130
Hillingdon	2,849	569	379	2,544	557	303
Hounslow	1,001	481	317	972	426	229
Kingston-upon-Thames	1,105	175	108	1,109	152	77
Merton	806	305	163	693	259	142
Redbridge	800	364	245	930	339	223
Richmond-upon-Thames	928	185	74	873	208	53
Sutton	785	214	139	734	209	120
Waltham Forest	876	335	366	817	353	264
Borough not known	90	39	33	22	19	2
Total	50,825	15,333	12,204	49,171	14,554	9,995

 
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	2003–04
Borough	Automatic fire alarm	Good intent	Malicious
Inner London	30,354	7,288	5,339
Camden	3,823	519	342
City of London	1,136	122	30
Hackney	1,692	634	428
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,820	333	152
Haringey	1,469	480	420
Islington	1,829	519	416
Kensington and Chelsea	2,189	389	161
Lambeth	1,718	578	403
Lewisham	1,258	512	654
Newham	1,037	633	636
Southwark	1,854	658	480
Tower Hamlets	2,295	760	608
Wandsworth	1,815	426	254
Westminster	6,419	725	355
Outer London	20,442	8,717	4,519
Barking and Dagenham	397	525	351
Barnet	1,377	579	195
Bexley	805	413	169
Brent	1,319	447	402
Bromley	929	511	232
Croydon	1,192	547	284
Ealing	1,401	527	332
Enfield	1,319	599	405
Greenwich	953	675	418
Harrow	1,192	287	223
Havering	599	441	156
Hillingdon	2,502	721	267
Hounslow	1,021	542	182
Kingston-upon-Thames	1,185	198	67
Merton	713	296	137
Redbridge	991	427	192
Richmond-upon-Thames	891	266	67
Sutton	793	267	131
Waltham Forest	863	449	309
Borough not known	40	30	6
Total	50,836	16,035	9,864

Note:
2002–03 excludes 15 strike days.
Source:
LFEPA

Fire Service

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what proportion of Fire and Rescue Service staff have received training on using incident response units at the Fire Service College. [2440]

 
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Jim Fitzpatrick: During 2004 approximately 320 fire and rescue service personnel were trained at the Fire Service College on Incident Response Units (IRUs). This enabled cascade training to be undertaken in individual fire and rescue authorities so that now, approximately every firefighter (50,000) has received basic training on mass decontamination and the IRUs.

In 2005, the Fire Service College is providing 180 fire and rescue service personnel with mass decontamination instructor training covering use of the IRUs. To date, 120 personnel have attended the course.

Home Information Packs

Mr. Love: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) if he will publish the regulatory impact assessment on his proposed HIP energy reports; [6303]

(2) whether the regulatory impact assessment on the proposed home information pack energy reports followed guidelines on (a) air quality and (b) emissions of air pollutants; and if he will make a statement. [5252]

Yvette Cooper: The energy report in the home information pack will implement, for marketed sales, a requirement of the EU directive 2002/91/EC (Energy Performance of Buildings) which was negotiated by Government in 2001–02. An initial RIA on the directive was carried out and the assessment concluded that as well as improving awareness of energy efficiency the directive would help reduce carbon emissions. A separate RIA on the energy report has not been carried out. A full RIA for the directive will be produced before regulations for its implementation are laid in Parliament.

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