HC Deb 19 June 1992 vol 209 cc701-2W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by fire service authority, the percentage of hoax fire calls attended during the last 12 months; and what the corresponding figures were for(a) 24 months, (b) 36 months and (c) 48 months ago.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

[holding answer 18 June 1992]: The latest available information is for the years 1987 to 1990 and is shown in the table. It gives the percentage of total fire calls attended by local authority fire brigades which the brigades believed to be malicious false alarms.

The percentage of total fire calls that were malicious false alarms 1987 to 1990
Fire Brigade 1987 1988 1989 1990
UNITED KINGDOM 18.45 18.72 15.80 15.85
ENGLAND 18.86 18.89 15.78 15.55
Non-Metropolitan 14.50 14.31 12.01 12.10
Avon 12.94 13.81 12.08 11.97
Bedfordshire 15.16 14.17 11.82 10.76
Berkshire 10.19 9.97 8.91 8.94
Buckinghamshire 13.40 13.96 11.73 11.86
Cambridgeshire 14.84 14.47 12.53 11.28
Cheshire 15.75 12.96 12.00 11.81
Cleveland 34.97 35.96 30.76 28.45
Cornwall 6.41 7.49 4.74 5.53
Cumbria 13.56 13.19 12.42 12.54
Derbyshire 17.69 19.42 15.14 14.69
Devon 10.23 11.67 9.89 12.25
Dorset 7.51 8.48 6.17 7.77
Durham 22.69 23.76 19.63 22.64
East Sussex 9.89 10.62 9.32 8.96
Essex 15.15 15.16 12.33 11.24
Gloucestershire 11.22 11.79 11.30 13.70
Hampshire 7.44 7.13 5.35 5.53
Hereford and Worcester 12.10 13.97 12.05 13.02
Hertfordshire 10.70 10.23 9.07 8.54
Humberside 20.05 18.74 16.67 19.68
Isle of Wight 4.49 4.95 4.88 4.95
Kent 17.79 17.68 14.19 11.71
Lancashire 17.66 17.03 15.33 15.68
Leicestershire 19.66 19.66 17.27 16.40
Lincolnshire 18.06 16.11 14.69 14.74
Norfolk 11.68 9.59 8.90 7.91
North Yorkshire 10.75 11.30 8.62 8.99
Fire Brigade 1987 1988 1989 1990
Northamptonshire 12.03 13.00 9.11 8.15
Northumberland 13.79 12.82 8.64 11.35
Nottinghamshire 20.33 16.28 12.22 11.62
Oxfordshire 12.53 13.83 10.72 12.03
Shropshire 5.58 4.74 5.78 10.09
Somerset 5.27 7.31 5.80 6.82
Staffordshire 17.14 16.23 12.83 13.20
Suffolk 7.79 7.23 5.54 5.16
Surrey 12.44 10.76 8.85 8.51
Warwickshire 16.58 14.30 9.66 9.79
West Sussex 8.94 9.72 8.42 8.10
Wiltshire 9.31 8.96 8.21 7.86
Metropolitan 23.61 23.63 19.82 19.29
Greater Manchester 24.37 24.00 22.09 21.27
Merseyside 22.27 23.39 18.45 16.41
South Yorkshire 22.54 24.30 19.22 18.08
Tyne and Wear 21.89 25.22 21.18 21.49
West Midlands 28.44 26.97 21.06 19.95
West Yorkshire 24.92 26.59 21.78 19.87
Greater London 22.08 21.10 17.95 18.54
WALES 19.72 21.12 17.86 17.64
Clwyd 16.18 14.70 12.16 14.65
Dyfed 11.96 12.20 13.59 13.50
Gwent 22.81 23.89 20.78 20.79
Gwynedd 10.90 11.06 11.93 8.47
Mid Glamorgan 23.20 26.60 20.29 19.63
Powys 6.97 7.90 6.91 5.31
South Glamorgan 25.12 24.50 22.20 19.88
West Glamorgan 20.63 25.35 19.23 21.60
NORTHERN IRELAND 15.75 17.37 14.49 17.67
SCOTLAND 15.85 16.84 15.47 16.83
Strathclyde 17.17 18.98 17.36 18.14
Highland and Islands 4.70 5.90 4.96 6.43
Grampian 9.44 10.41 7.47 8.81
Tayside 8.62 9.26 11.13 13.10
Lothian and Borders 20.39 19.01 16.93 21.53
Fife 19.22 17.65 16.76 13.91
Central 14.87 18.46 17.13 16.05
Dumfries and Galloway 10.46 12.19 13.10 13.93