§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. Redmond), of 19 June 1992,Official Report, columns 7017–2, if he will publish a table showing the hoax fire calls for 1991 and 1992 on a similar basis to that given for 1987 to 1990.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe information for 1991 is shown in the following table; 1992 information is not yet available.
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Percentage of total lire calls attended by local authority fire hi which the brigades believed to be malicious false alarms 1991 Per cent. United Kingdom 17.2 England 17.3 England—non.metropolitan 14.2 Avon 13.9 Bedfordshire 11. Berkshire 13.8 Buckinghamshire 12.9 Cambridgeshire 14.1 Cheshire 11.9 Cleveland 33.4 Cornwall 7.3 Cumbria 13.4 Derbyshire 15.6 Devon 14.7 Dorset 12.3 Durham 24.4 East Sussex 11.3 Essex 15.5 Gloucestershire 14.5 Hampshire 7.1 Hereford and Worcestershire 14.0 Hertfordshire 10.4 Humberside 20.0 Isle of Wight 8.4 Kent 15.7 Lancashire 17.5 Leicestershire 17.8 Lincolnshire 14.9 Norfolk 8.8 North Yorkshire 7.6 Northamptonshire 9.2 Northumberland 13.4 Nottinghamshire 11.3 Oxfordshire 12.3 Shropshire 14.7 Somerset 12.2 Staffordshire 15.7
Per cent. Suffolk 7.3 Surrey 10.6 Warwickshire 9.0 West Sussex 8.2 Wiltshire 11.1 England—Metropolitan 20.1 Greater Manchester 22.6 Merseyside 16.5 South Yorkshire 20.2 Tyne and Wear 22.8 West Midlands 22.5 West Yorkshire 18.8 Greater London 20.2 Wales 17.6 Clwyd 13.4 Dyfed 14.7 Gwent 23.4 Gwynedd 7.9 Mid Glamorgan 19.4 Powys 8.9 South Glamorgan 19.5 West Glamorgan 19.5 Northern Ireland 13.1 Scotland 17.8 Strathclyde 20.3 Highlands and Islands 8.0 Grampian 9.6 Tayside 13.4 Lothian and Borders 18.6 Fife 17.5 Central 14.6 Dumfries and Galloway 13.3