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Fire Services: injuries

Volume 470: debated on Thursday 24 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many firefighters, following injury (a) retired and took their pensions due to injury, (b) were re-employed within the Fire Service in other roles and (c) left the Fire Service without their pension, in each of the last five years. (180809)

Available information, for ill-health retirements due to injury, which relate to all Fire and Rescue Staff (uniformed and non-uniformed) is set out as follows:

Ill-health retirements due to injury England 2001-02 to 2005-06

Number

2001-02

168

2002-03

184

2003-04

115

2004-05

382

2005-06

244

Source:

Annual returns to Communities and Local Government

Information on re-employments and leavers without pensions is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.