Fire and Rescue Services
(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent firefighters there have been in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019
The Home Office published the latest statistics on firefighter numbers in England on 18 October 2018. The number of firefighters (full time equivalent) employed by FRSs in England on the 31st March each year are shown in the table below:
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| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Wholetime firefighters | 29,735 | 29,018 | 28,166 | 27,185 | 26,180 | 25,098 | 23,887 | 22,867 | 22,580 |
On-call firefighters | 11,898 | 12,149 | 11,513 | 11,269 | 10,989 | 10,828 | 10,469 | 9,894 | 9,760 |