§ The Minister of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Lord Rooker)My right honourable friend the Minister for Local Government, Regional Governance and Fire has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
On 11 December when the draft national framework for the Fire and Rescue Service was published I issued a consultation document on the proposals on regional control rooms in England. Those proposals were outlined in the White Paper, Our Fire and Rescue Service, and detailed in the draft national framework.
A copy of my response on the issues raised in the consultation paper is available in the Libraries of the House. The responses broadly endorsed the proposed approach of regional control rooms on the basis of one per region and the proposed governance arrangements.
I have written to the chair of the Practitioners Forum and the chairs of authorities confirming this.