To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fire station closures there have been in each local authority in each year since 2016.
Answered on
23 May 2024
For the latest available data, to year ending March 2021, there were 1,390 fire stations, compared with 1,400 in year ending March 2016, a reduction of 10 stations over the period for the whole of England.
Table 1: Number of Fire Stations in England, by year
Year ending March | Number of Fire Stations | England-wide Annual Change |
2016 | 1,400 | |
2017 | 1,400 | 0 |
2018 | 1,394 | -6 |
2019 | 1,395 | +1 |
2020 | 1,393 | -2 |
2021 | 1,390 | -3 |
Change 2016 to 2021 | -10 | |
Data on fire stations is published in FIRE1403, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/634d2ed6e90e0731aa0fcc59/fire-statistics-data-tables-fire1403-201022.xlsx. The number of fire stations is not collected by local authority but is available by fire and rescue service (FRS) by year for England.
The data since March 2021 is under review as we are working on ways to ensure the quality and accuracy of the data provided.