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The efficiency savings achieved by each region from 2004-08 were:
| Region | Total (£) |
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which regional control centres for the Fire Service have been completed; on what date each was completed; and what estimate has been made for planning purposes of the date upon which her Department will become liable for the running costs of each fire regional control centre which remains to be completed. [251150]
Mr. Khan: All regional control centres except London have now reached Practical Completion. London is expected to reach Practical Completion in early 2010 as planned. Once Practical Completion is completed, CLG becomes liable for running costs. The Practical Completion dates for the new Regional Control Centres are as follows:
| Practical completion date | Region |
Fire Services: Bed and Breakfast Accommodation
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) enforcement notices and (b) prohibition notices have been issued by fire and rescue services to bed and breakfast premises under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 since 1 October 2006; and if she will make a statement. [250821]
Mr. Khan: Available information is for the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, in which the fire and rescue services reported issuing 947 enforcement notices and 71 prohibition notices to hotels. These may include bed and breakfast premises.
Separate information on enforcement activity on bed and breakfast premises is not centrally held.
Fire Services: Finance
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the expenditure her Department will incur in meeting the rental and other building costs on buildings housing fire service regional control between the first scheduled cut-over date and the last scheduled cut-over date, broken down by region. [251148]
Mr. Khan: The estimated cost to the Department between first and the last cut over is as follows.
| Region | Estimated cost to the Department between first and last cut ove r (£) |
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much central funding was provided to each regional fire management board in the most recent year for which figures are available. [251789]
Mr. Khan: No central funding has been provided to the fire and rescue service regional management boards. Regional management board running costs are expected to be met from within the constituent fire and rescue authorities’ existing budgets.
Fire Services: Pay
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average salary of a chief fire officer was in (a) 2003 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available; and what the average was in each (i) fire authority area and (ii) region in each year. [250705]
Mr. Khan: This information is not held centrally.
Fire Services: Working Hours
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 9 October 2007, Official Report, column 563W, on fire services: Working Time Directive, what assessment she has made of the effect of proposed changes to the Working Time Directive on the ability of retained duty system firefighters to work more than 48 hours a week in primary and secondary employment; and if she will make a statement. [251933]
Mr. Khan: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) on 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1076W.
FireGuard
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the role of Firebuy was in the FireGuard project. [252183]
Mr. Khan: Firebuy, the national procurement body for the English fire and rescue service, undertook the procurement for the Fireguard project at the request of 33 fire and rescue authorities, led by the Chief Fire Officers’ Association.
Fires: Injuries
David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the (a) injuries and (b) deaths caused by domestic fires occurred in domestic fires attributable to (i) the absence of a smoke alarm and (ii) smoking materials in the latest period for which figures are available. [250829]
Mr. Khan: Statistics concerning the number of deaths and injuries in dwelling fires, attended by Fire and Rescue Services in England, from 2003 to 2007, that were caused by (i) smokers materials and (ii) that occurred in fires where a smoke alarm was either absent or did not operate are set out in the following tables. Figures for 2007 are provisional.
| Table 1: Casualties from fires in dwellings, by presence and operation of smoke alarms, England 2003 - 07( 1) | ||||||
| Total | Present, operated and raised alarm | Present, operated, but did not raise alarm | ||||
| Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | |
| Present but did not operate | Absent | Unspecified | ||||
| Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | |
| (1 )Figures for 2007 are provisional. | ||||||
| Table 2: Casualties from dwelling fires, started by smoker’s materials, England, 2003 - 07( 1) | ||
| Fatal casualties | Non fatal casualties | |
| (1) Figures for 2007 are provisional | ||
Group 4 Securicor
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what dates (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department met representatives of Group 4 to discuss the provision of services in the last 12 months; where each such meeting took place; and what the outcomes were. [251149]
Mr. Khan: No Ministers or officials in the Department of Communities and Local Government have met representatives of Group 4 to discuss the provision of services.
Home Information Packs
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans she has to issue further guidance on home information packs consequent upon the recent revision of the regulations affecting such packs. [251774]
Margaret Beckett: The Department will be preparing and communicating advice to help consumers and industry understand and plan for the changes to the home information pack regulations that will come into force on 6 April 2009.
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