Each year, the London fire authority is required to prepare an annual Statement of Assurance (SoA) in accordance with the Fire and Rescue National Framework for England. This is to " provide annual assurance on financial, governance and operational matters ". The format of the Statement follows guidance produced by the government (May 2013). The governance of London's fire and rescue service changed on 1 April 2018, when the former L...

The London Fire Brigade attends a range of non-fire incidents (which we call 'special services'). These 'special services' include assistance to other emergency services, including sometimes help with moving larger (i.e. bariatric) patients/people. Although the LFB does not explicitly capture and classify these types of incidents, we are able to identify them via the messages that are transmitted during incidents.   We routinely get as...

The London Fire Brigade attends a range of non-fire incidents (which we call 'special services'). These 'special services' include assistance to animals that may be trapped or in distress. We routinely get asked for information about the number of such incident attended by the London Fire Brigade and this data is published on the London Datastore to assist those who require it. The data is provided from January 2009 and isupdated mon...

London Fire Brigade is the busiest fire and rescue service in the country and one of the largest firefighting and rescue organisations in the world. This table summarises the details of every incident responded to since 2009 (by calendar and financial year). The categories derive from the UK government’s Incident Recording System. For more detail, we also publish all LFB incident records and all LFB mobilisation records (for fire engi...

The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires the publication of details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods/services with a value that exceeds £5,000. Details of LFB tender invitations of £10,000 or more are available on the London datastore here. In accordance with the LFB scheme of governance, tenders are not invited for goods/services under £10,000 in value. The LGA and DCLG advise that to publish det...

The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires the publication of details of every contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000. The London Fire Commissioner scheme of governance provides for tenders for purchases of £10,000 or more in value. Standing orders and the code of practice can be found on the LFB web site here. This page ...

Our Fire Facts report Fires in Greater London provides the most in depth review of fire data in LFB's 150 year history. The publicly available data (2000 to 2019) is divided into four sections: long term trends, where fires happen, fires in the home and fires in other buildings. The published Fire Facts is available on the LFB website. The underpinning data for the publication for the latest report is available in an Excel file. For dat...

This is historic data for the Members of the former London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) which was abolished on 31 March 2018. This data set is not updated. LFEPA ran the London Fire Brigade (LFB). Details of LFEPA members’ gifts and hospitality received during their time in office plus expenses claimed. Data is by financial year for previous years but by financial year quarters for the current financial year. Data i...

The London Fire Brigade operates a large number of emergency (operational) and non-operational vehicles. There are regular Freedom of Information requests asking for the details of these vehicles and this list is published to largely meet that need. It will be updated annually in October. The London Fire Commissioner is the fire and rescue authority for London, and runs the London Fire Brigade. The format of the fleet list changed in Oc...

This dataset is for 2018/19 only. 2017/18 is available here and 2016/17 and earlier years are available here . Data for 2019/20 is available here. Payments over £250 made by the London Fire Brigade* as part of the government and Mayor of London's transparency agenda. As of November 2012 the threshold for expenditure changed from £500 to £250 at request of the Mayor. The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires the data to indica...