Fire Services: Emergency Calls

Greg Mulholland
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.

Mr. Malik
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.

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