Firemen (Deaths and Injuries)

HC Deb 26 October 1995 vol 264 cc768-9W

Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the number of injuries to and deaths of firemen in each of the last five years in (i) Wales and (ii) England; and if he will make a statement. [38987]

Mr. Kirkhope

The information is given in the following table:

Deaths and injuries of fire brigade personnel while on duty in England and Wales 1990 to 1994–95
	England	Wales
Year	Deaths	Injuries1	Deaths	Injuries1
1990	5	671	1	59
1991	3	880	1	42
1992	3	811	0	50
19932 Ql	0	251	0	25
1993–94	3	722	0	75
1994/5p3	1	567	0	40
1 Injuries are defined as those which result in absence of duty for at least one month or 2 weeks or more of hospitalization.
2 January to March 1993. Since 1993 data is collected on a financial years (April to March) basis; prior to that it was on a calender year.
3 Figures for 1994–95 are provisional and those for England exclude London Fire Brigade casualties. In 1993–94 there were 149 non-fatal London Fire Brigade casualties and no deaths.

Source:

Home Office