Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) wholetime and (b) retained firefighters were employed by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in each year since 2010.
These figures are collected from fire and rescue services (FRSs) annually, through the Home Office’s Operational Statistics data collection. Published figures for all FRSs in England are available here - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity