§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the county fire authorities in order of number of hoax calls received in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will also show in each authority the number of hoax calls as a percentage of the population.
§ Mr. Charles WardleInformation on malicious false alarm incidents attended by local authority fire brigades in order of the number in 1992 is shown in the following table, which also shows the number expressed per 100 population.
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Table showing, for 1992, the number of malicious false alarms for each fire authority and the number of malicious false alarms per 100 population Fire authority Malicious false alarms1 Malicious false alarms per 100 population2 Greater London 22,384 0.33 Strathclyde 16,349 0.71 Greater Manchester 11,972 0.47 West Midlands 10,747 0.41 West Yorkshire 7,999 0.39 Tyne and Wear 6,949 0.62 Merseyside 6,451 0.45 Lancashire 4,745 0.34 South Yorkshire 4,630 0.36 Cleveland 4,346 0.78 Northern Ireland 3,397 0.21 Humberside 3,104 0.35 Essex 2,957 0.19 Kent 2,678 0.17 Durham 2,574 0.43 Staffordshire 2,164 0.21 Mid Glamorgan 2,160 0.40 Gwent 2,109 0.47 Lothian and Borders 2,107 0.25 Derbyshire 1,920 0.20 Avon 1,837 0.19 Devon 1,724 0.17 South Glamorgan 1,638 0.40 Leicestershire 1,615 0.18 West Glamorgan 1,543 0.42 Cheshire 1,457 0.15 Nottinghamshire 1,446 0.14 Berkshire 1,350 0.18 Surrey 1,320 0.13 Cambridgeshire 1,232 0.18 Tayside 1,136 0.29 Fife 1,108 0.32 Hereford and Worcestershire 1,067 0.16 Buckinghamshire 1,036 0.16 Clwyd 1,024 0.25 Cumbria 1,013 0.21 Hertfordshire 989 0.10 Oxfordshire 986 0.17 Norfolk 984 0.13 Gloucestershire 867 0.16 Lincolnshire 862 0.15 Dyfed 806 0.23 East Sussex 793 0.11 Hampshire 779 0.05 Wiltshire 737 0.13 Bedfordshire 724 0.14 Shropshire 701 0.17 Dorset 693 0.10
Fire authority Malicious false alarms1 Malicious false alarms per 100 population2 Northumberland 688 0.22 West Sussex 687 0.10 Warwickshire 681 0.14 Suffolk 632 0.10 Grampian 616 0.12 Northamptonshire 616 0.10 Central 567 0.21 North Yorkshire 555 0.08 Somerset 555 0.12 Cornwall and Scilly 366 0.08 Highlands and Islands 346 0.13 Gwynedd 309 0.13 Dumfries and Galloway 255 0.17 Powys 120 0.10 Isle of Wight 100 0.08 1 Provisional figures. 2 Based on 1991 mid-year estimates.