Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of changes in the level of government funding on fire and rescue services in Cheshire.

Fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work. In 2017/18 Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service have a core spending power of £40.9 million, and reserves of £33.8 million at March 2016. Over the last 5 years the level of reserves has more than doubled and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service have seen a 31 per cent reduction in fires and a 6 per cent reduction in overall incidents.