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Fire Services: Crimes of Violence

Volume 487: debated on Monday 9 February 2009

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Mr. Denis Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many recorded attacks on fire crews there were in each of the last three years, broken down by fire and rescue service area. (254215)

Mr. Khan

The Department collects figures on attacks on firefighters based on returns from fire and rescue authorities. The following table shows the number of attacks over the last three years by fire and rescue authority (FRA) for England.

Number of attacks notified to CLG by year of incident and FRA

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Avon

7

9

12

Bedfordshire

4

4

1

Royal Berkshire

8

4

1

Buckinghamshire

6

3

2

Cambridgeshire

29

15

17

Cheshire

31

25

21

Cleveland

96

91

60

Cornwall

—

2

—

Cumbria

1

8

5

Derbyshire

9

7

16

Devon (Devon and Somerset from 2007-08)

8

10

110

Dorset

6

5

4

Durham

28

48

22

East Sussex

1

—

4

Essex

17

17

6

Gloucestershire

8

4

6

Hampshire

6

5

11

Hereford and Worcester

1

1

8

Hertfordshire

1

—

2

Humberside

34

25

37

Isle of Wight

—

1

1

Kent

10

13

9

Lancashire

28

38

35

Leicestershire

12

14

18

Lincolnshire

9

7

10

Norfolk

2

4

3

North Yorks

2

8

11

Northamptonshire

4

17

13

Northumberland

10

7

9

Nottinghamshire

31

29

18

Oxfordshire

—

6

2

Shropshire

—

9

6

Somerset

3

—

1—

Staffordshire

23

23

29

Suffolk

4

3

3

Surrey

1

5

5

Warwickshire

21

25

10

West Sussex

—

4

3

Wiltshire

2

4

1

Isles of Scilly

—

1

—

Greater Manchester

223

184

68

Merseyside

172

103

49

South Yorkshire

60

69

57

Tyne and Wear

33

98

92

West Midlands

137

79

95

West Yorkshire

112

108

169

London

10

15

6

Grand total

1,210

1,157

967

1 Devon and Somerset FRS merged on the 1 April 2007.