Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what the budget was and (b) how many firefighters were employed by West Midlands Fire Service in each of the last seven years.

The West Midlands fire and rescue service’s annual operational expenditure to 2015-16 and budget for 2016-17, also available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing

The number of full time equivalent firefighters for West Midlands fire and rescue service at 31 March for each year are as follows, also available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables