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The data are provided by the Valuation Office Agency and relate to a particular date in the autumn of each year.
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether any local authorities have had legal action brought against them on the basis of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. [187254]
Mr. Dhanda: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Jim Cousins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what changes
have been made to provisions for ill-health retirement for firefighters since the Fire Service circular of September 2006. [187412]
Mr. Dhanda: No changes have been made to provisions in the Firefighters' Pension Scheme 1992.
The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England) Order 2006 came into force on 25 January 2007 and gave effect to the New Firefighters' Pension Scheme 2006. Firefighters who have joined the Fire and Rescue Service in England on or after 6 April 2006 are members of this scheme unless they opt out. The ill-health retirement arrangements in this scheme are similar to those in the 1992 scheme and no changes have been made to them since it came into operation.
Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many households in (a) Warrington and (b) the rest of Cheshire received home safety advice from Cheshire Fire Service in 2007. [187962]
Mr. Dhanda: The information required is available only for the period January to September 2007, which is provided in the following table:
Period | Activity | Total |
Information on the number of home fire risk checks and smoke alarm installations undertaken by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service for the period October 2007 to March 2008 is not yet available. Similarly, information on the number of home fire risk checks and smoke alarm installations undertaken by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service for the Warrington area is not held centrally.
Communities and Local Government has made a total of £26.4 million available to all English fire and rescue services up to 2008, to undertake home fire risk checks and to support further fire prevention work.
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many fires there were reported to the Fire Service in each year since 1978. [187629]
Mr. Dhanda: Information on the number of primary fires in England is shown in Table 1 as follows, however statistics on the total number of primary fires in England is only available from 1981 onwards. Prior to this, information on the number of primary fires, in England, is limited to subcategories of primary fire.
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