Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
(asked on 24th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to fire and rescue services in each of the last five years.
Government funding for fire and rescue services in England is provided by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) through the Local Government Finance Settlement in the form of revenue support grant (RSG) and retained business rates.
The amount of funding that fire and rescue services receive is determined and distributed using a formula owned by MHCLG. The amount of funding received by fire and rescue services in each of the last five years is as follows:
Year | Funding amount |
2020/21 | around £2.3 billion |
2021/22 | around £2.3 billion |
2022/23 | around £2.5 billion |
2023/24 | around £2.6 billion |
2024/25 | around £2.9 billion |