Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) genuine and (b) malicious false alarm fire emergency calls have been received in (i) the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and (ii) the City of Southampton in each of the last five years. [250172]
Mr. Khan:
The information requested is available in the following table, however information regarding incidents attended by the Fire and Rescue Service is not available at a local level.
False fire alarms attended by Fire and Rescue Services, England, 2003-07( 1)
England
Hampshire
Total false fire alarms
Malicious
Good intent
Due to apparatus
Total false fire alarms
Malicious
Good intent
Due to apparatus
2003(1)
387,032
47,010
108,721
231,301
10,333
788
2,945
6,600
2004
365,304
39,229
91,178
234,897
9,827
666
2,431
6,730
2005
354,786
30,264
92,151
232,371
10,018
592
2,695
6,731
2006
349,846
25,428
94,651
229,767
9,565
612
3,018
5,935
2007(2)
334,045
22,306
94,322
217,417
7,746
505
3,205
4,036
(1) Includes estimates for incidents not recorded during periods of industrial action. (2) Provisional.
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Fire Services: Manpower
Mr. Dismore:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many firefighters there were per 100,000 residents in each fire and rescue authority area in England in (a) 1997, (b) 26 Jan 2009 : Column 110W
2004 and (c) the latest year for which figures are available; and how many such firefighters there were in each year in each region. [250704]
Mr. Khan:
Information on the number of firefighters per 100,000 population and firefighters in England is shown as follows.
Firefighters per 100,000 resident population and number of firefighters
Firefighters per 100,000 residents
Number of firefighters
Fire authority
1997-98
2003-04
2007-08
1997-98
2003-04
2007-08
Avon
88
89
83
861
891
880
Bedfordshire and Luton
81
76
84
447
436
500
Royal Berkshire
74
73
68
588
584
562
Buckinghamshire
75
79
82
500
547
588
Cambridgeshire
90
87
83
624
635
632
Cheshire
82
82
78
806
815
782
Cleveland
124
118
114
685
657
636
Cornwall
122
121
115
590
618
608
Cumbria
147
149
150
718
729
743
Derbyshire
90
85
81
859
832
803
Devon and Somerset
116
119
116
1,779
1,898
1,929
Dorset
93
93
93
636
652
660
County Durham and Darlington
93
95
90
558
560
546
East Sussex
91
91
86
665
677
656
Essex
87
86
88
1,368
1,395
1,486
Gloucestershire
89
92
88
496
523
514
London
82
81
80
5,771
5,990
6,047
Greater Manchester
88
84
79
2,207
2,135
2,014
Hampshire
91
91
93
1,473
1,512
1,586
Hereford and Worcester
98
95
99
689
691
728
Hertfordshire
83
81
78
842
842
831
Humberside
117
122
120
1,026
1,072
1,092
Isles of Scilly(1)
2
2
2
44
51
51
Isle of Wight
176
162
154
224
221
215
Kent
110
105
106
1,697
1,681
1,741
Lancashire
97
96
89
1,374
1,374
1,298
Leicestershire
79
74
68
721
694
658
Lincolnshire
103
108
111
637
716
771
Merseyside
107
97
94
1,490
1,319
1,264
Norfolk
94
90
99
727
730
836
North Yorkshire
99
90
92
726
687
722
Northamptonshire
85
83
79
520
531
537
Northumberland
126
124
125
388
385
387
Nottinghamshire
88
91
89
898
936
943
Oxfordshire
85
87
93
506
538
593
Shropshire
111
114
119
472
510
539
South Yorkshire
76
77
70
973
977
911
Staffordshire
80
83
79
837
867
844
Suffolk
101
95
106
666
643
752
Surrey
83
75
71
864
803
778
Tyne and Wear
93
92
86
1,036
993
933
Warwickshire
98
91
83
487
475
438
West Midlands
80
77
75
2,073
1,979
1,944
West Sussex
98
93
96
720
704
744
West Yorkshire
92
87
78
1,906
1,823
1,692
Wiltshire
90
87
90
536
543
576
England
92
90
88
44,710
44,871
44,990
(1) Firefighters per 100 population Source:
Annual returns to Communities and Local Government
