Fire Services: Finance
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Jamie Reed (Copeland, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much is planned to be spent on the fire and rescue service in the next three years.
Shahid Malik (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Dewsbury, Labour)
Spending on fire is a devolved matter. The amount spent on fire and rescue authorities in England is a decision taken by individual authorities. The Government do not hold this information centrally.
In most cases, fire and rescue services are delivered by single-purpose authorities (combined and metropolitan county fire and rescue authorities). Formula Grant of £796.9 million was allocated to be spent on fire and rescue by these authorities in the provisional local government finance settlement for 2010-11, which the Government published at the same time as the 2009-10 settlement. The final 2010-11 settlement will be published according to the usual timetable.
In addition, £119 million of specific grants are anticipated to be made to fire and rescue authorities in 2010-11.
Decisions about Government funding from 2011-12 will be taken as part of the next spending review.