Fires: Warrington

Helen Southworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many calls to reports of fires on domestic premises in Warrington were made by Cheshire Fire Service in each quarter of (a) 2006 and (b) 2007.

Mr. Dhanda
For 2006, data on fire calls attended are only available for the whole of Cheshire Fire and Rescue Authority. Information relating to smaller geographical units (e.g. Warrington) is currently only available up to the end of 2005. As a guide, in 2005 just under a fifth of all the domestic fires attended in Cheshire occurred in the Warrington Unitary Authority area.

Information on the number of dwelling fires in Cheshire for each quarter in 2006 is shown in the table. No data are available for 2007.

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|                                   |Number|
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|1 January to 31 March 2006         |183   |
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|1 April to 30 June 2006            |187   |
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|1 July to 30 September 2006        |173   |
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|1 October to 31 December 2006      |216   |
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|Total                              |759   |
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|Note:Data for 2006 are provisional.|      |
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