Fire Cover (Hansard, 30 April 2001)

§ Mr. Mike O'Brien

The Home Office, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and the Audit Commission have agreed three Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI) to measure how well brigades are meeting the standards of fire cover. These are shown in tables 1–3.

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Table 1. Percentage of incidents at which the number of appliances mobilised met the standards of fire cover 1999–2000
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
County Durham and Darlington	11,814	11,814	100.0
Derbyshire	10,161	10,161	100.0
Hereford and Worcester	6,172	6,172	100.0
Mid and West Wales	6,200	6,200	100.0
Northumberland	3,528	3,528	100.0
Oxfordshire	7,024	7,024	100.0
Royal Berkshire	1,147	1,147	100.0
Shropshire	2,624	2,624	100.0
Somerset	3,862	3,862	100.0
Warwickshire	4,056	4,056	100.0
West Sussex	11,066	11,066	100.0
West Yorkshire	17,866	17,866	100.0
South Wales	6,073	6,069	99.9
Cambridgeshire	6,973	6,963	99.9
West Midlands	16,875	16,849	99.8
Lincolnshire	2,936	2,931	99.8
Norfolk	5,200	5,186	99.7
Humberside	7,206	7,186	99.7
Backinghamshire	4,777	4,749	99.4
Wiltshire	5,606	5,569	99.3
Dorset	4,360	4,331	99.3
Merseyside	14,370	14,265	99.3
Devon	6,245	6,195	99.2
Essex	7,068	7,009	99.2
Staffordshire	8,869	8,787	99.1
East Sussex	8,044	7,956	98.9
Leicestershire	1,345	1,327	98.7
Cheshire	7,501	7,391	98.5
Avon	9,282	9,143	98.5
Isle of Wight	884	869	98.3
South Yorkshire	5,010	4,898	97.8
Gloucestershire	4,112	4,006	97.4
Surrey	9,773	9,510	97.3
Bedfordshire and Luton	2,530	2,452	96.9
London	52,784	51,098	96.8
Northamptonshire	7,789	7,455	95.7
Cleveland	2,418	2,301	95.2
Kent	10,722	10,154	94.7
Cornwall	2,764	2,589	93.7
Cumbria	¹—	¹—	¹—
Greater Manchester	¹—	¹—	¹—
Hampshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Hertfordshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Lancashire	¹—	¹—	¹—
North Wales	¹—	¹—	¹—
North Yorkshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Nottinghamshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Suffolk	¹—	¹—	¹—
Tyne and Wear	¹—	¹—	¹—
Total	307,036	302,758	98.6

Table 2. Percentage of incidents at which the number of riders met the standards of fire cover 1999–2000
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
West Midlands	16,875	16,834	99.8
Merseyside	14,370	14,287	99.4
Isle of Wight	884	878	99.3
Humberside	7,206	7,155	99.3
Norfolk	5,200	5,135	98.8
Lincolnshire	2,936	2,857	97.3
Northumberland	3,528	3,430	97.2
Mid and West Wales	6,200	5,914	95.4
Royal Berkshire	1,147	1,089	94.9
Hereford and Worcester	6,172	5,676	92.0
South Yorkshire	5,010	4,580	91.4
Smoerset	3,862	3,528	91.4

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Table 2. Percentage of incidents at which the number of riders met the standards of fire cover 1999–2000
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
Cleveland	2,418	2,207	91.3
South Wales	6,073	5,506	90.7
Cambridgeshire	6,973	6,285	90.1
Dorset	4,360	3,890	89.2
Oxfordshire	7,024	6,188	88.1
Essex	7,068	6,133	86.8
Leicestershire	1,345	1,166	86.7
Avon	9,282	8,045	86.7
West Yorkshire	17,866	15,459	86.5
Devon	6,245	5,399	86.5
Staffordshire	8,869	7,568	85.3
Cornwall	2,764	2,348	84.9
Shropshire	2,624	2,200	83.8
Warwickshire	4,056	3,392	83.6
Wiltshire	5,606	4,593	81.9
Bedfordshire and Luton	2,530	2,004	79.2
Required by Standards of Fire Cover	—	—	75.0
Cheshire	7,501	5,619	74.9
Buckinghamshire	4,777	3,526	73.8
Gloucestershire	4,112	2,997	72.9
Hertfordshire	7,453	5,382	72.2
London	52,613	36,265	68.9
Kent	10,722	6,653	62.0
Northamptonshire	7,789	4,222	54.2
Country Durham and Darlington	¹—	¹—	¹—
Cumbria	¹—	¹—	¹—
Derbyshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
East Sussex	¹—	¹—	¹—
Greater Manchester	¹—	¹—	¹—
Hampshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Lancashire	¹—	¹—	¹—
North Wales	¹—	¹—	¹—
North Yorkshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Nottinghamshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Suffolk	¹—	¹—	¹—
Surrey	¹—	¹—	¹—
Tyne and Wear	¹—	¹—	¹—
West Sussex	¹—	¹—	¹—
Total	263,460	218,410	82.9

Table 3. Percentage of incidents at which the attendance times met the standards of five cover 1999–2000
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
Warwickshire	4,056	4,044	99.7
Mid and West Wales	6,200	6,178	99.6
Northumberland	3,528	3,514	99.6
Norfolk	5,200	5,172	99.5
Somerset	3,862	3,841	99.5
Oxfordshire	7,024	6,970	99.2
East Sussex	8,044	7,956	98.9
Leicestershire	1,345	1,327	98.7
West Sussex	11,066	10,865	98.2
Humberside	7,206	7,058	97.9
Wiltshire	5,606	5,479	97.7
Gloucestershire	4,112	4,006	97.4
Derbyshire	10,161	9,892	97.4
Staffordshire	8,869	8,631	97.3
Suffolk	6,391	6,217	97.3
Lincolnshire	2,936	2,855	97.2
South Wales	6,073	5,899	97.1
Cambridgeshire	6,973	6,749	96.8
Shropshire	2,624	2,539	96.8
Dorset	4,360	4,199	96.3
Average	—	—	96.1
West Yorkshire	17,866	17,144	96.0
Cheshire	7,501	7,184	95.8

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Table 3. Percentage of incidents at which the attendance times met the standards of fire cover 1999–2000
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
Hertfordshire	7,453	7,138	95.8
Northamptonshire	7,789	7,455	95.7
West Midlands	16,875	16,080	95.3
Isle of Wight	884	842	95.2
Kent	10,722	10,210	95.2
Essex	7,068	6,711	94.9
Merseyside	14,370	13,596	94.6
South Yorkshire	5,010	4,702	93.9
Royal Berkshire	1,147	1,076	93.8
Cornwall	2,764	2,589	93.7
Avon	9,282	8,635	93.0
Devon	6,245	5,794	92.8
Surrey	9,773	9,031	92.4
Buckinghamshire	4,777	4,409	92.3
Cleveland	2,418	2,187	90.4
Bedfordshire and Luton	2,530	2,271	89.8
County Durham and Darlington	¹—	¹—	¹—
Cumbria	¹—	¹—	¹—
Greater Manchester	¹—	¹—	¹—
Hampshire	¹—	¹—	¹—
Hereford and Worcester	¹—	¹—	¹—
Lancashire	¹—	¹—	¹—
London	¹—	¹—	¹—

Standards of fire cover—Merseyside performance indicators
	Total incidents	Successes	Percentage of successes
BVPI	1998–99	1999–2000	1998–99	1999–2000	1998–99	1999–2000
Appliances mobilised	14,073	14,370	14,056	14,265	99.9	99.3
Number of riders	14,073	14,370	14,064	14,287	99.9	99.4
Attendance times	14,073	14,370	13,321	13,596	94.7	94.6