Fire Services: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many fire service personnel there were per 100,000 population in (a) Chesterfield, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each year since 2006. (321596)

[holding answer 11 March 2010]: Numbers of fire and rescue service personnel are held centrally only by fire authority, thus the data in the table are for Derbyshire and England only.

*Number of fire and rescue service personnel per 100,000 population*
	Total fire and rescue service personnel	Fire and rescue service personnel per 100,000 population
As at 31 March each year	Derbyshire	England	Derbyshire	England
2006	983	54,297	99.3	107.0
2007	984	55,036	98.8	107.7
2008	1,021	55,537	101.9	108.0
2009¹	1,017	55,540	101.5	108.0
¹ 2009 population estimates not yet available. Mid-year 2008 population used. Sources: 1. Annual returns from Fire and Rescue Services to Communities and Local Government 2. Mid-year population estimates, Office for National Statistics

Volume 507: debated on Friday 12 March 2010