HC Deb 26 November 1951 vol 494 cc118-20W
Mr. Ede

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will give, for the summer of 1939, or the most convenient date prior to the war-time expansion and subsequent nationalisation of the Fire Service, the numbers of Fire Service personnel in county borough and non-county borough fire brigades, respectively, who were part of the polices forces of their towns or cities;

(2) if he will give lists of the county boroughs and non-county boroughs, respectively, in which, prior to the war-time nationalisation of the Fire Service, the fire service personnel formed part of the police force of the towns or cities concerned.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

The returns of strength of the police forces in England and Wales on 29th September, 1939, showed that in the county boroughs 1,098 police were employed whole-time as firemen and 849 police were employed as auxiliary firemen. The corresponding figures for the non-county borough police forces were 36 and 247 respectively. A list of the county boroughs and non-county boroughs in which at that time police were employed as whole-time firemen or auxiliary firemen follows:

COUNTY BOROUGHS AND NON-COUNTY BOROUGHS WHERE POLICE WERE SERVING AS FIREMEN IN 1939
County Boroughs
Barnsley. Norwich.
Blackburn. Nottingham.
Bradford. Oldham.
Bristol. Plymouth.
Burnley. Portsmouth.
Canterbury. Rochdale.
Cardiff. Rotherham.
Carlisle. St. Helens.
Dewsbury. Salford.
Doncaster. Sheffield.
Dudley. Southport.
Gateshead. South Shields.
Great Yarmouth. Stockport.
Huddersfield. Sunderland.
Kingston-upon- Swansea.
Hull. Tynemouth.
Leeds. Wakefield.
Lincoln. Wallasey.
Liverpool. Walsall.
Manchester. Wigan.
Merthyr Tydfil. Wolverhampton.
Newcastle upon Worcester.
Tyne. York.
Northampton.

Non-County Boroughs
Ashton-under- Hyde.
Lyne. Kendal.
Bacup. Lancaster.
Cambridge. Leamington.
Carmarthen. Neath.
Chesterfield. Newark.
Dover. Penzance.
Glossop. Scarborough.
Gravesend. Shrewsbury.
Hereford. Stalybridge.