The following table shows formula grant allocations for each combined fire authority, metropolitan fire authority and the GLA (fire) for the years 2005-06 to 2007-08. In addition 15 county fire authorities are responsible for providing the fire and rescue service within their areas. Their formula grants allocation covers all the services provided including fire, but the fire element cannot be separately identified. It is for each county to allocate funding between services in response to their statutory duties and local priorities.
£ million Formula grant Local authority 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 GLA Fire 277.288 248.308 254.453 Greater Manchester Fire 78.266 70.085 72.020 Merseyside Fire 52.019 44.198 45.391 South Yorkshire Fire 36.816 33.720 34.333 Tyne and Wear Fire 38.763 33.065 33.937 West Midlands Fire 82.228 76.456 77.397 West Yorkshire Fire 59.788 52.123 53.548 Avon Fire 25.827 23.946 24.388 Bedfordshire Fire 10.905 10.194 10.594 Berkshire Fire Authority 15.041 14.734 15.118 Buckinghamshire Fire 11.028 10.946 11.226 Cambridgeshire Fire 12.721 11.863 12.444 Cheshire Fire 17.008 15.525 16.471 Cleveland Fire 22.863 21.757 21.940 Derbyshire Fire 18.540 16.299 16.920 Devon Fire 22.614 20.469 n/a Devon and Somerset Fire n/a n/a 29.095 Dorset Fire 12.258 10.337 10.733 Durham Fire 13.907 12.258 13.058 East Sussex Fire 15.060 13.524 13.836 Essex Fire Authority 30.815 28.692 29.938 Hampshire Fire 28.522 26.627 27.595 Hereford and Worcester Fire 11.208 9.840 10.355 Humberside Fire 25.427 23.431 24.026 Kent Fire 28.958 27.048 28.111 Lancashire Fire 34.087 30.494 31.965 Leicestershire Fire 17.431 17.082 17.694 North Yorkshire Fire 13.568 12.335 12.712 Nottinghamshire Fire 21.679 20.179 21.073 Shropshire Fire 7.153 6.766 7.195 Staffordshire Fire 17.462 16.125 16.822 Wiltshire Fire 8.845 8.563 9.152 Notes: 1. Decreases in Formula Grant funding between 2005-06 and 2006-07 reflect the removal of firefighter pensions from revenue support grant. 2. From 2006-07 FRAs receive pensions top-up grant to cover any annual deficit in their firefighter pension funds.
Fire authorities also benefited from the following specific grant funding:
Type of funding 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Fire prevention grants n/a 5,689,926 5,651,208 Fire control 2,272,787 3,620,237 16,983,600 New Dimension 14,106,760 26,015,848 16,706,251 Pensions top up grant: Estimate n/a 138,937,033 163,155,000 Home fire risk checks initiative 5,000,000 5,000,000 10,000,000
The following table shows all incidents attended by English fire services between 2003-04 and 2004-05, including all fires, false alarms and special service incidents (including road traffic accidents and other non-fire or false alarm related incidents). The table also shows fire and false alarm incidents attended during the 2006 calendar year. Non-fire and non-false alarm data are not available for 2006.
All incidents All fires and false alarms1 FRS area 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006 (calendar) England 1,016,028 859,800 841,780 689,937 Avon 21,360 17,628 18,723 15,309 Bedfordshire 9,414 7,413 5,930 5,716 Berkshire 14,398 12,121 11,410 9,915 Buckinghamshire 10,999 9,791 9,699 8,242 Cambridgeshire 13,039 11,710 11,886 10,544 Cheshire 17,543 15,242 15,081 13,250 Cleveland 15,594 13,063 13,593 12,479 Cornwall 6,203 5,946 5,690 4,511 Cumbria 8,340 7,567 7,624 6,256 Derbyshire 14,773 12,428 12,826 10,594 Devon 18,308 17,374 16,676 12,114 Dorset 10,282 9,294 9,205 6,718 Durham 11,723 10,421 9,916 9,255 East Sussex 14,648 12,932 12,819 9,819 Essex 27,946 23,265 22,709 18,386 Gloucestershire 8,850 8,402 8,287 6,424 Greater London 181,642 158,756 155,224 106,084 Greater Manchester 64,240 54,052 52,414 47,316 Hampshire 27,138 22,389 22,697 18,717 Hereford and Worcester 10,785 9,016 8,801 7,609 Hertfordshire 14,941 12,000 11,526 9,412 Humberside 22,067 17,330 16,697 13,956 Isle of Wight 1,891 1,643 1,789 1,411 Isles of Scilly 35 26 33 33 Kent 28,916 23,325 23,497 18,919 Lancashire 30,907 26,518 24,995 17,808 Leicestershire 15,236 13,078 12,622 10,511 Lincolnshire 11,420 11,197 10,680 6,702 Merseyside 42,804 34,603 29,854 27,947 Norfolk 11,095 9,610 10,155 9,103 North Yorkshire 10,722 10,347 10,612 8,175 Northamptonshire 12,382 10,537 10,425 8,478 Northumberland 6,126 4,996 4,712 4,381 Nottinghamshire 23,476 18,482 17,757 15,393 Oxfordshire 6,957 6,451 6,469 5,016 Shropshire 7,008 5,880 5,966 5,296 Somerset 7,648 6,069 5,528 4,051 South Yorkshire 30,619 23,217 23,763 21,440 Staffordshire 18,233 15,249 15,672 14,227 Suffolk 9,366 7,803 7,941 7,408 Surrey 17,255 15,113 15,357 12,416 Tyne and Wear 29,533 23,773 23,523 23,602 Warwickshire 9,012 7,864 8,123 7,015 West Midlands 65,635 52,219 50,251 43,755 West Sussex 14,100 12,662 12,269 9,335 West Yorkshire 52,929 43,810 42,489 39,166 Wiltshire 8,488 7,188 7,865 5,723 1 Excluding road traffic accidents and other non-fire incidents. Note: Fire and false alarm data for 2006 are provisional.
The distribution of formula grant takes into account the relative needs and potential to raise income locally (resources) of an authority, relative to all other authorities providing the same service. It also contains a central allocation and a floor damping mechanism.
To reflect needs, the Fire and Rescue Relative Needs Formula (RNF) takes into account the resident population, coastline, deprivation, high risk sites, property and societal risk and community fire safety. The high risk sites element is measured by the number of top tier Control of Major Accident hazards (COMAH) sites per head. The COMAH sites data are sourced from the Health and Safety Executive and for the 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 settlement, the count is as at 1 October 2007.