Question follow-through · 81745
Fire and Rescue Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the number of (a) firefighter posts since 2010, (b) (i) fire stations and (ii) control rooms and (c) fire
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the number of (a) firefighter posts since 2010, (b) (i) fire stations and (ii) control rooms and (c) fire
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government acknowledges the vital contributions made by fire and rescue services. Decisions on how their resources are best deployed are a matter for each fire and rescue authority (FRA) as employer, based on its analysis of risk and local circumstanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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