Fire Services: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) genuine and (b) bogus fire emergency calls have been received in Leeds North West in each year since 2006. (305770)

This information is held centrally only to Fire Authority level. The numbers of malicious false alarm calls and other emergency calls to West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service are shown in the following table.

*Total emergency calls and malicious false alarms calls to West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service 2006-07 to 2008-09*
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Malicious false alarms calls	3,903	2,395	2,149
Other emergency calls	88,458	82,000	76,163
Total emergency calls	92,361	84,395	78,312
Source: Data returns to Communities and Local Government

Volume 502: debated on Thursday 10 December 2009