Question follow-through · 76918
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) trends in the number of firefighters and (b) levels of funding for fire and rescue services on public safety.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) trends in the number of firefighters and (b) levels of funding for fire and rescue services on public safety.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
On 3 February, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published the 2025/26 Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) which sets out funding allocations for all local authorities, including Fire and Rescue Authorities. These allocation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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