questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a statutory obligation requiring the fire and rescue service to respond to major flooding and other extreme weather events.
answerText: Please note that fire and rescue is a devolved issue in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The Home Office is only able to comment on fire and rescue services in England.A statutory duty for firefighters to respond to flooding is unlikely to make a sig...
heading: Fire and Rescue Services