HC Deb 01 February 1994 vol 236 cc650-2W
1991. Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hoax fire calls per 1,000 population were made in each fire authority area in(a) 1989, (b) 1990 and (c)

Mr. Charles Wardle

Information on malicious false alarm incidents attended by local authority fire brigades is shown in the table.

Malicious false alarm incidents per 1,000 population by brigade area, 1989–91
Brigade area 1989 1990 1991
United Kingdom 2.3 2.4 2.6
England and Wales 2.2 2.3 2.5
England 2.2 2.3 2.5
Brigade area 1989 1990 1991
England, non-Metropolitan 1.4 1.5 1.6
Avon 1.4 1.4 1.7
Bedfordshire 1.3 1.3 1.1
Berkshire 1.1 1.2 1.6
Buckinghamshire 1.3 1.4 1.3
Cambridgeshire 1.3 1.3 1.6
Cheshire 1.4 1.7 1.6
Cleveland 6.8 6.4 7.9
Cornwall 0.5 0.5 0.6
Cumbria 1.3 1.3 1.6
Derbyshire 1.6 1.6 1.6
Devon 1.2 1.4 1.7
Dorset 0.6 0.9 1.2
Durham 3.1 3.8 4.0
East Sussex 1.0 0.9 1.1
Essex 1.4 1.4 1.6
Gloucestershire 1.1 1.5 1.5
Hampshire 0.5 0.6 0.6
Hereford and Worcester 1.3 1.5 1.4
Hertfordshire 0.9 1.0 1.0
Humberside 2.7 3.4 3.4
Isle of Wight 0.5 0.5 0.7
Kent 1.6 1.3 1.6
Lancashire 2.3 2.5 3.1
Leicestershire 1.8 1.9 1.9
Lincolnshire 1.4 1.5 1.5
Norfolk 0.9 0.9 0.9
North Yorkshire 0.8 0.9 0.8
Northamptonshire 1.0 1.0 1.1
Northumberland 1.2 1.5 1.8
Nottinghamshire 1.6 1.6 1.5
Oxfordshire 1.1 1.4 1.4
Shropshire 0.8 1.5 1.9
Somerset 0.5 0.6 1.2
Staffordshire 1.3 1.4 1.7
Suffolk 0.5 0.5 0.6
Surrey 1.1 1.3 1.2
Warwickshire 1.0 1.3 1.0
West Sussex 1.0 1.0 0.9
Wiltshire 0.8 0.8 1.1
England, Metropolitan 3.6 3.7 3.8
Greater Manchester 4.3 4.5 5.1
Merseyside 4.7 4.3 4.6
South Yorkshire 2.7 2.8 3.0
Tyne and Wear 5.1 5.4 6.1
West Midlands 3.4 3.4 3.6
West Yorkshire 3.8 3.6 3.5
Greater London 3.0 3.2 3.2
Wales 2.5 2.7 2.6
Clwyd 1.5 2.0 1.8
Dyfed 1.6 1.5 1.6
Gwent 2.6 3.1 3.2
Gwynedd 1.5 1.2 1.1
Mid Glamorgan 3.4 3.5 3.4
Powys 0.7 0.5 0.8
South Glamorgan 3.7 3.3 3.2
West Glamorgan 3.1 3.8 3.3
Northern Ireland 2.5 2.7 2.4
Scotland 2.7 3.0 3.6
Strathclyde 3.4 3.5 5.0
Highland and Islands 0.7 0.9 1.4
Grampian 0.9 1.0 1.2
Tayside 2.0 2.4 2.3
Lothian 3.2 4.4 3.8
Fife 2.6 2.0 2.9
Central 2.5 2.3 2.2
Dumfries 1.6 1.7 1.9