Hoax Fire Calls

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