Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of debt has been for each fire authority in each of the last eight financial years.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government publish data on local authority debt. This can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance#borrowing-and-investment