Fire Services: Equipment Mr. Fallon To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer of 15 September 2008, Official Report, columns 2083-4W, on fire services: equipment, what the equivalent information is for 2008-09. Mr. Malik [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 | ------------------------------------------------------------