Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flooding incidents the fire and rescue services have responded to in England in each year since 2010.

The latest available data (year ending March 2024) on the number flooding incidents attended by Fire and rescue Services in England is published in FIRE0901, available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67165e5c9242eecc6c849b5e/fire-statistics-data-tables-fire0901-241024.xlsx

This provides the number of flooding incidents by year for England, for each fire and rescue service (FRS), designated as either metropolitan or non-metropolitan, for each FRS, designated as either predominantly rural, significantly rural, or predominantly urban, and for each individual FRS.

The table below provides the number of flooding incidents in England between the years ending March 2010 and years ending March 2024.