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Schedule 14 FIRE SERVICES PERFORMANCE INDICATORSI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Indicator NumberDescription of indicator
1

The number of calls to fire attended:

  1. (a)

    total calls (excluding false alarms) per 10,000 population;

  2. (b)

    primary fires per 10,000 population;

  3. (c)

    accidental fires in dwellings per 10,000 dwellings.

2

The number of—

  1. (a)

    deaths; and

  2. (b)

    injuries (excluding precautionary checks),

arising from accidental fires in dwellings per 100,000 population.

3Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in major cities and classified as “A risk” according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985f1.
4Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in smaller cities/larger towns and classified as “B risk” according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
5Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in smaller towns and urban residential areas and classified as “C risk” according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
6Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in rural village areas and classified as “D risk” according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
7The percentage of calls to fires at which national standards for attendance were met.
8The number of calls to malicious false alarms per 1,000 population.
9The average time taken by fire authorities to issue fire safety certificates.
10False alarms caused by automatic fire detection apparatus per 1,000 non-domestic properties.
11Expenditure per head of population on the provision of fire and rescue services.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 14 in force at 1.4.2003, see art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

The categories of fire risk “A”, “B”, “C” and “ D” are determined by reference to the type of property which predominates in an area. The basis of these risk categories is set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985, issued to fire authorities by the Home Office on 22 May 1985. This circular is available free of charge from ODPM, Fire Policy Division, Zone 17/B, Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5LP.