Fire Stations: Closures

(asked on 22nd November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an estimate of the number of fire stations that have closed per region since 2010.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th November 2023

For the latest available data, to year ending March 2021, there were 1,390 fire stations, compared with 1,439 in year ending March 2010, a reduction of 49 stations over the period for the whole of England. In the year ending March 2010, there were 101,159 primary fires in England, compared with 61,922 in year ending March 2021.

Table 1: Number of Fire Stations in England, by year

Year ending March

Number of Fire Stations

England-wide Annual Change

2010

1,439

2011

1,435

-4

2012

1,422

-13

2013

1,416

-6

2014

1,407

-9

2015

1,409

+2

2016

1,400

-9

2017

1,400

0

2018

1,394

-6

2019

1,395

+1

2020

1,393

-2

2021

1,390

-3

Change 2010 to 2021

-49

Data on fire stations is published in FIRE1403, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/634d2ed6e90e0731aa0fcc59/fire-statistics-data-tables-fire1403-201022.xlsx. This provides the number of fire stations by year for England, and for each fire and rescue service (FRS), designated as either metropolitan or non-metropolitan. We do not publish the data by region, but the numbers for each FRS can be aggregated to provide required regional level data.

Data on the number of primary fires is published in FIRE0102, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65324b0e26b9b1000faf1c5e/fire-statistics-data-tables-fire0102-261023.xlsx.

Reticulating Splines