[holding answer 24 February 2010]: The number of front-line pumping appliances in each fire and rescue service in England during 2008-09 is shown in the table.
The numbers of defibrillators in each Fire and Rescue Service in 2007 as provided in the answer of 15 September 2008, Official Report, columns 2083-4W, on fire services: equipment were data collected as a one-off for the following piece of research: Current Practice and Prospects for Fire and Rescue Service Co-responding, 14/2008:
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/fire/frscoresponding
Information on the number of defibrillators in Fire and Rescue Services is not collected routinely and therefore data for 2008-09 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Fire and rescue service Front line pumping appliances Avon 37 Bedfordshire and Luton 22 Buckinghamshire 31 Cambridgeshire 38 Cheshire 35 Cleveland 22 Cornwall 43 County Durham and Darlington 27 Cumbria 50 Derbyshire 44 Devon and Somerset 121 Dorset 40 East Sussex 35 Essex 71 Gloucestershire 33 Greater Manchester 66 Hampshire 76 Hereford and Worcester 43 Hertfordshire 41 Humberside 49 Isle of Wight 16 Isles of Scilly 3 Kent 86 Lancashire 60 Leicestershire 31 Lincolnshire 48 London 168 Merseyside 42 Norfolk 54 North Yorkshire 47 Northamptonshire 28 Northumberland 24 Nottinghamshire 36 Oxfordshire 35 Royal Berkshire 22 Shropshire 28 South Yorkshire 32 Staffordshire 44 Suffolk 38 Surrey 35 Tyne and Wear 31 Warwickshire 26 West Midlands 61 West Sussex 46 West Yorkshire 62 Wiltshire 35 England 2,062