Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service received by grant from central government in each year since 2010.

The table below sets out core central government funding for the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority since 2010-11.

These figures do not include specific central government grants such as pension top-ups and National Resilience Assurance.

In 2013-14 a major change was introduced in local government finance that meant that local authorities (including Fire and Rescue Authorities) were now able to retain a share of their local business rates. This reduced the level of requirement from central government funding.