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Fire Services: Emergency Calls

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a)
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genuine and (b) malicious false fire emergency calls were received in (i) Greater Manchester and (ii) the North West in each of the last five years. [271175]

Mr. Khan: The information requested is available in the following tables.

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False fire alarms by FRS and type, England, 2003-07( 1)
	2003				2004
FRS area	Total	Malicious	Good intent	Due to apparatus	Total	Malicious	Good intent	Due to apparatus
England	382,283	46,351	107,607	228,325	365,304	39,229	91,178	234,897
North East	19,603	2,403	5,656	11,544	17,825	1,799	4,620	11,406
Cleveland	4,372	569	1,515	2,288	3,746	394	1,254	2,098
Durham	3,683	669	1,309	1,705	3,569	377	1,027	2,165
Northumberland	2,037	200	459	1,378	1,914	166	394	1,354
Tyne and Wear	9,511	965	2,373	6,173	8,596	862	1,945	5,789
North West	55,939	9,840	14,361	31,738	52,173	8,044	11,302	32,827
Cheshire	5,641	569	1,023	4,049	5,296	535	823	3,938
Cumbria	3,056	370	669	2,017	2,696	184	488	2,024
Greater Manchester	23,342	5,200	5,771	12,371	22,209	4,572	4,564	13,073
Lancashire	11,556	1,320	3,439	6,797	11,285	1,205	2,904	7,176
Merseyside	12,344	2,381	3,459	6,504	10,687	1,548	2,523	6,616
Yorkshire and The Humber	40,330	5,423	10,996	23,911	37,877	4,207	9,051	24,619
Humberside	6,034	717	1,936	3,381	5,654	642	1,629	3,383
North Yorkshire	4,603	310	960	3,333	5,086	384	922	3,780
South Yorkshire	9,195	2,109	2,868	4,218	7,566	1,131	2,226	4,209
West Yorkshire	20,498	2,287	5,232	12,979	19,571	2,050	4,274	13,247
East Midlands	26,801	2,766	7,090	16,945	26,304	2,706	6,344	17,254
Derbyshire	6,244	619	1,739	3,886	5,986	574	1,490	3,922
Leicestershire	6,015	531	1,447	4,037	5,914	533	1,234	4,147
Lincolnshire	3,159	505	884	1,770	3,200	562	776	1,862
Northamptonshire	4,260	388	1,166	2,706	4,371	344	1,145	2,882
Nottinghamshire	7,123	723	1,854	4,546	6,833	693	1,699	4,441
West Midlands	40,028	5,297	13,134	21,597	39,467	4,670	11,471	23,326
Hereford and Worcester	4,130	301	1,165	2,664	4,086	323	901	2,862
Shropshire	2,251	202	665	1,384	2,112	203	636	1,273
Staffordshire	6,166	624	1,647	3,895	6,150	535	1,421	4,194
Warwickshire	3,539	160	998	2,381	3,490	174	931	2,385
West Midlands	23,942	4,010	8,659	11,273	23,629	3,435	7,582	12,612
East of England	35,183	3,363	10,521	21,299	32,390	2,910	8,960	20,520
Bedfordshire	3,287	355	1,062	1,870	2,973	289	788	1,896
Cambridgeshire	6,096	348	1,507	4,241	6,220	352	1,427	4,441
Essex	10,669	1,600	4,236	4,833	9,971	1,485	3,696	4,790
Hertfordshire	6,263	438	1,587	4,238	4,947	234	1,155	3,558
Norfolk	4,788	273	1,218	3,297	4,448	221	1,109	3,118
Suffolk	4,080	349	911	2,820	3,831	329	785	2,717
Greater London	74,709	9,565	16,148	48,996	74,692	8,558	14,244	51,890
South East	55,525	4,378	18,466	32,681	53,593	3,788	15,638	34,167
Berkshire	6,710	596	1,862	4,252	6,645	561	1,744	4,340
Buckinghamshire	3,913	351	1,170	2,392	4,099	318	674	3,107
East Sussex	5,869	471	3,973	1,425	5,684	439	3,751	1,494
Hampshire	10,203	779	2,916	6,508	9,827	666	2,431	6,730
Isle of Wight	788	60	465	263	718	78	215	425
Kent	11,015	1,173	3,805	6,037	9,819	773	3,160	5,886
Oxfordshire	2,378	163	757	1,458	2,368	163	709	1,496
Surrey	7,997	420	1,824	5,753	7,904	420	1,476	6,008
West Sussex	6,652	365	1,694	4,593	6,529	370	1,478	4,681
South West	34,165	3,316	11,235	19,614	30,983	2,547	9,548	18,888
Avon	10,070	1,666	3,321	5,083	8,750	1,271	2,548	4,931
Cornwall	2,403	171	850	1,382	2,034	120	758	1,156
Devon	7,514	618	1,680	5,216	6,954	406	1,543	5,005
Dorset	4,473	315	2,968	1,190	4,336	351	2,729	1,256
Gloucestershire	3,142	133	928	2,081	3,469	133	808	2,528
Isles of Scilly	11	0	8	3	7	0	1	6
Somerset	2,828	234	675	1,919	2,288	155	444	1,689
Wiltshire	3,724	179	805	2,740	3,145	111	717	2,317

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