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Fire Services: Finance

Volume 507: debated on Thursday 11 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent on the fire and rescue service per 100,000 population in each local authority area in the last 12 months. (321597)

The latest available outturn net current expenditure on the fire and rescue services per 100,000 of the population in each local authority in England is for 2008-09 and is tabled as follows:

£000 per 100,000 population

Greater London Authority

5,388

Greater Manchester Fire and CD Authority

3,887

Merseyside Fire and CD Authority

5,013

South Yorkshire Fire and CD Authority

4,168

Tyne and Wear Fire and CD Authority

4,648

West Midlands Fire and CD Authority

4,393

West Yorkshire Fire and CD Authority

3,184

Avon Combined Fire Authority

3,862

Bedfordshire Combined Fire Authority

3,651

Berkshire Combined Fire Authority

3,758

Buckinghamshire Combined Fire Authority

3,505

Cambridgeshire Combined Fire Authority

2,714

Cheshire Combined Fire Authority

3,927

Cleveland Combined Fire Authority

5,006

Derbyshire Combined Fire Authority

3,129

Devon and Somerset Combined Fire Authority

4,048

Dorset Combined Fire Authority

3,375

Durham Combined Fire Authority

4,417

East Sussex Combined Fire Authority

4,714

Essex Combined Fire Authority

4,032

Hampshire Combined Fire Authority

3,449

Hereford and Worcester Combined Fire Authority

3,691

Humberside Combined Fire Authority

5,085

Kent Combined Fire Authority

4,071

Lancashire Combined Fire Authority

3,966

Leicestershire Combined Fire Authority

3,245

North Yorkshire Combined Fire Authority

3,598

Nottinghamshire Combined Fire Authority

3,853

Shropshire Combined Fire Authority

4,145

Staffordshire Combined Fire Authority

2,813

Wiltshire Combined Fire Authority

3,618

County councils

Cornwall

3,842

Cumbria

3,865

Gloucestershire

3,184

Hertfordshire

3,600

Lincolnshire

3,835

Norfolk

3,499

Northamptonshire

3,428

Northumberland

5,033

Oxfordshire

3,547

Somerset1

39

Suffolk

3,279

Surrey

3,778

Warwickshire

3,955

West Sussex

4,047

Isles of Scilly

15,547

Unitary authority

Isle of Wight UA

4,227

1 Fire and rescue responsibility was transferred from Somerset county council to Devon and Somerset Combined Fire Authority on 1 April 2007. However, Somerset county council still has some residual costs. Source: Communities and Local Government provisional Revenue Outturn (RO) returns.

Population figures used in the calculation are the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates for 2008.

The current expenditure defined here is on a Financial Reporting Standard (FRS) 17 basis and is the cost of running local authority services within the financial year. This includes the costs of staffing, heating, lighting and cleaning, together with expenditure on goods and services consumed within the year. This expenditure is offset by income from sales, fees and charges and other (non-grant) income, to give net current expenditure.