Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding provided to (a) Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and (b) other fire and rescue services in the UK.

In 2020/21, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Authority will receive £36.1 million in core spending power. This is an increase of £1.2 million (3.5%) compared with 2019/20. In addition, at March 2018, the authority held £13.8 million in resource reserves.

Fire and rescue services in England have the resources they need to do their important work and will receive around £2.3 billion in 2020/21. Single purpose fire and rescue authorities will see an increase in core spending power of 3.2% in cash terms since 2019/20. At March 2018 single purpose Fire and Rescue Authorities held £545 million in resource reserves.