Financial sustainability of fire and rescue services inquiry

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 3 Nov 2015 Closed: 12 May 2016 Parliament page
The incidents of fires and related casualties have been on a long-term downward trend. As has funding for fire and rescue authorities, which has fallen significantly between 2010–11 and 2015–16 leading to reductions to numbers of firefighters and prevention and protection activities. Concerns have been raised that capacity to respond … Read more
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8 Sep 2016 Correspondence from the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office relating to the Committee’s Twenty-third Report of 2015-16, Financial sustainability of fire and rescue services
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