Question follow-through · 2057

Fire and Rescue Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to increase the number of (a) wholetime and (b) retained firefighters.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 29 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 3 Sept 2024
Answer: 3 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to increase the number of (a) wholetime and (b) retained firefighters.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work. Overall, fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.87 billion in 2024/25. Standalone FRAs will see an increase in core spend...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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