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Question reference: S2W-25040

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls were made to each fire and rescue service in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The number of calls made to thefire and rescue services are shown in the following table.

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	6,093	4,977	4,949	4,962	5,107	5,444	10,678	10,244	12,559	9,206
Dumfries and Galloway	3,165	2,719	7,039	8,576	2,656	3,110	3,397	3,063	3,369	3,018
Fife	14,657	17,572	13,125	12,632	14,515	14,033	14,420	15,782	16,132	14029
Grampian	13,637	12,168	12,422	10,788	11,984	14,157	15,099	16,250	18,257	14,050
Highlands and Islands	8,481	8,700	7,545	7,784	8,002	7,201	7,052	7,729	7,568	6,581
Lothian and Borders	31,267	28,659	27,815	26,193	30,800	33,816	36,632	33,134	36,732	34,564
Strathclyde	77,002	65,942	61,507	60,338	62,735	64,584	101,896	97,660	105,590	903,26
Tayside	19,846	14,691	13,440	12,559	14,206	14,145	15,292	13,854	15,245	12,817

Source: HM Chief Inspector ofFire Services for Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-25037

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many firefighters have been retired before their retirement age as a result of ill health or injury in each of the last five financial years.

Question reference: S2W-25039

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) incidents and (b) fires were attended by each fire and rescue service in each of the last 10 years.

The number of fires and incidentsattended by the fire and rescue services is shown in the following tables.

Incidents

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	335	672	332	401	372	358	366	440	388	520
Dumfries and Galloway	281	384	257	216	382	386	306	277	269	260
Fife	710	553	710	628	618	651	700	612	618	722
Grampian	755	1805	913	1100	806	1149	1031	1351	1109	1057
Highlands and Islands	349	446	426	450	471	534	547	683	683	749
Lothian and Borders	1138	1555	1488	1590	1571	2066	1892	1820	1642	1586
Strathclyde	4297	5796	4149	4177	5018	4743	4837	4031	3960	3729
Tayside	580	1130	663	677	758	819	888	930	791	954

Fires (000)

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	2.3	2.2	1.8	1.8	2.0	2.3	2.7	2.5	3.1	2.3
Dumfries and Galloway	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.1	0.9
Fife	3.5	3.3	2.7	2.7	3.0	3.1	3.2	3.0	4.2	3.2
Grampian	4.0	4.2	3.8	3.5	3.9	3.7	3.8	3.9	4.9	3.2
Highlands and Islands	3.4	3.6	2.6	2.4	2.3	2.3	2.8	2.3	2.7	1.7
Lothian and Borders	10.0	9.5	8.0	7.0	9.2	9.2	9.9	9.3	11.5	7.8
Strathclyde	31.0	33.0	26.0	23.3	26.8	29.6	31.1	26.4	33.5	24.6
Tayside	5.1	5.0	4.3	3.6	4.2	4.5	4.7	4.2	4.6	3.2

Source incidents: HM Chief Inspectorof Fire Services for Scotland.

Source fires: Fire StatisticsUnited Kingdom Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Question reference: S2W-24991

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was provided centrally for community fire safety budgets in each of the last five years.

The centrally providedcommunity fire safety budget for the last five years is shown in the following table.

Year	Budget
2005-06	£759,840
2004-05	£945,313
2003-04	£791,526
2002-03	£800,000
2001-02	£800,500

Question reference: S2W-25036

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated to the firefighters’ pension scheme in each year since 1997.

The information is shown inthe following table.

Year	£000
1997-98	16,635
1998-99	20,167
1999-2000	21,100
2000-01	24,465
2001-02	25,000
2002-03	26,325
2003-04	36,469
2004-05	42,469
2005-06	46,969

Question reference: S2W-25027

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to reduce the number of, and casualties from, accidental dwelling fires started by under 10-year-olds.

Question reference: S2W-25035

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average pay for firefighters has been in each of the last 25 years.

Question reference: S2W-25033

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to reduce the number of fire and rescue authorities.

Question reference: S2W-25031

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when a decision will be made in respect of the future of the emergency fire service control rooms.

Question reference: S2W-25032

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what impact a reduction in the number of emergency fire service control rooms will have on the number of fire and rescue authorities.