Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to increase funding for the fire service in (a) Bournemouth East constituency and (b) England.

Fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work. Overall, fire and rescue authorities in England will receive around £2.5 billion in 2022/23. Dorset & Wilshire Fire and Rescue Authority has a core spending power of £60.5m, an increase of £2.6m (4.5%) compared to 2021/22.

Over the past 10 years (year ending December 2011– year ending December 2021) the total number of all incidents in England attended by fire and rescue services has fallen by 8% and the total number of fire incidents in England has fallen by 34%.