Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average response time for first appliance attendance by each UK fire and rescue service brigade was in the last 12 months.

The Department publishes response time information for English fire and rescue services only.

The average response time to fires for each fire and rescue service are published annually in the following Statistical Release. The most recent data available is for 2013/14 and Tables 3a onwards show average response times to different types of fire incident:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-incidents-response-times-england-2013-to-2014

Note: that this measure records response times as the period between the time of call to the arrival at the scene of the first vehicle. This may differ from some individual services’ own published measures and targets.