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1135851

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to implement the recommendations in the report of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services on Fire and Rescue Service Inspections 2018/19.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	271576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office will give the inspectorate’s findings, and in particular the recommendations which have been made to Government, detailed consideration as we engage with sector leaders to continue to improve performance in fire and rescue services.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2019 16:13:27 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1135852

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusion in the report of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services on Fire and Rescue Service Inspections that there are too few firefighters to meet the foreseeable fire risk.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	271577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>Fire services have the resources they need to do their important work. Overall fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.3 billion in 2019/20.</p><p>Operational decisions are for each fire and rescue authority to make as part of the integrated risk management planning process, drawing on the professional advice of their Chief Fire Officer.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2019 16:06:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1135853

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the findings in the report of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services’ on Fire and Rescue Service Inspections 2018/19, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resources available to fire service inspection programmes; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	271578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has the resources it requires to deliver the fire and rescue services’ inspection programme.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2019 16:14:12 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1105039

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent firefighters there have been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	236360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office published the latest statistics on firefighter numbers in England on 18 October 2018. The number of firefighters (full time equivalent) employed by FRSs in England on the 31<sup>st</sup> March each year are shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wholetime firefighters</p></td><td><p>29,735</p></td><td><p>29,018</p></td><td><p>28,166</p></td><td><p>27,185</p></td><td><p>26,180</p></td><td><p>25,098</p></td><td><p>23,887</p></td><td><p>22,867</p></td><td><p>22,580</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>On-call firefighters</p></td><td><p>11,898</p></td><td><p>12,149</p></td><td><p>11,513</p></td><td><p>11,269</p></td><td><p>10,989</p></td><td><p>10,828</p></td><td><p>10,469</p></td><td><p>9,894</p></td><td><p>9,760</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 02/04/2019 15:47:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

971474

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the benefits of standardising the method for recording fire service response times in England.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	172592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>Each time a fire and rescue service (FRS) attends an incident in England, details of that incident are uploaded to the Home Office’s Incident Recording System (IRS) by the FRS and this is used as the source for all the statistics in the response times publication <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/response-times-to-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2016-to-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/response-times-to-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2016-to-march-2017</a></p><p>The response time is defined as the duration from time of call to time of arrival of the first vehicle at the scene of the incident and is standard for all FRSs. FRSs set their own targets for local response times which may not include the call time, however this should not affect records in the IRS.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 14/09/2018 16:37:30 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

847025

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has of trends in the comparative number of (a) incidents attended by fire services and (b) fire-fighters in (i) the West Midlands and (ii) England.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	129199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes firefighter and incident attended statistics. The former are currently available to March 2017 and the latter to September 2017 and can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables</a> in tables FIRE0102 and FIRE1101.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/03/2018 19:21:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

746708

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she plans to consult local (a) residents, (b) councils and (c) hon. Members in assessing the business case for a Police and Crime Commissioner to take over responsibility for Fire and Rescue Services in the local area.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>It is for directly elected PCCs to decide whether to bring forward a proposal to take on responsibility for their local fire and rescue service, demonstrating how to do so would be in the interests of economy, efficiency and effectiveness, or public safety. Where it appears to the Secretary of State that these tests have been met, the necessary secondary legislation will be drafted and laid in the House.</p><p>Before submitting a proposal, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2017, requires PCCs to consult each relevant local authority, people in their local police force area and those appearing to represent employees and members of the police force who may be affected by the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2017 15:22:40 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

746709

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants have been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners to investigate taking over responsibility for Fire and Rescue services; which authorities have received that grant; and how the level of that grant was determined.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office has awarded £1 million from the Police Transformation Fund to nine police and crime commissioners (PCCs) for their work in developing proposals to take on the additional responsibility for the governance of fire and rescue in their area. It follows a police-led process which saw a competitive bidding round, and funding recommendations made by the Police Reform and Transformation Board.</p><p>The PCCs who will receive funds are Sussex, West Mercia, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and North Yorkshire. Details were published below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-funds-pccs-to-support-further-police-and-fire-collaboration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-funds-pccs-to-support-further-police-and-fire-collaboration</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2017 15:26:33 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

746710

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions will be made to compensate county and unitary councils who suffer a financial loss as a result of Fire and Rescue Services being transferred to Police and Crime Commissioners; and how much has been made available for that compensation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Policing and Crime Act 2017 enables PCCs to take on responsibility for local fire and rescue services where a local case is made.</p><p>It is for individual PCCs to consider whether to bring forward such a proposal. The Secretary of State will only give effect to the proposal where it appears, in her view, to be in the interests of economy, efficiency and effectiveness or public safety to do so.</p><p>It is expected that a PCCs proposal will take account of transition costs, the impact on existing collaborations and where the fire and rescue authority is integrated within a local authority, the impact on wider council functions.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2017 15:30:50 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

677058

registered interest
date	17/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reform the fire service.
tabling member constituency	Braintree
tabling member printed	James Cleverly
uin	908300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government - in partnership with the fire sector - is delivering a radical and ambitious programme of reform to make the fire and rescue service more accountable, efficient and professional than ever before. This includes: creating a new independent inspectorate; enabling police and crime commissioners to take on local fire governance; supporting commercial transformation; driving transparency; forming a professional standards body and reforming the workforce to make it more flexible, skilled and diverse.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/01/2017 16:37:51 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly