Fire and Rescue Services: Staff

(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firefighters were available for duty in (a) Cumbria, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) Lancashire, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) London in 2015; and how many such firefighters are available in each of those areas in 2020.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 25th June 2020

The Home Office publishes annual workforce figures for fire and rescue services (FRSs) in England. Figures for 2020 will be published in Autumn 2020.

The full published data are available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity

The Home Office does not hold data on how many of these firefighters are available for duty.

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