§ Mr. CashTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the levels of spending on fire services per head of population in(a) Staffordshire and (b) each other county of England (i) in the current year and (ii) in each of the last three years. [94013]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienFire service spending per head figures for the years 1992–93 until 1997–98, the latest year for which full information is available centrally, were placed in the Library in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Mr. Marsden) on 15 February 1999,Official Report, column 503, by the former Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth). In 1998–99 spending per head on the fire service in Staffordshire County Council was £24.