The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) Order 2005

Article 21

SCHEDULE 16 Performance indicators for fire services

Indicator number	Description of indicator
(a) Primary fires include fires that: (i) involve non-derelict buildings or vehicles that have not been abandoned, or (ii) where there are casualties or rescues as a result of the fire, or (iii) where five or more fire appliances attend the fire. Secondary fires are all other fires which would not be classed as primary fires.
1	The number of calls to fire attended in respect of: (a) primary fires(a) per 10,000 population in the authority’s area; (b) accidental fires in dwellings per 10,000 dwellings in the authority’s area.
2	The number of: (a) deaths; (b) injuries (excluding precautionary checks); per 100,000 population arising from accidental fires in dwellings.
3	The percentage of accidental fires in dwellings where the fire was confined to the room in which it started.
4	The number of calls to malicious false alarms, per 1,000 population in the authority’s area: (a) not attended and (b) attended by the fire and rescue services.
5	(a) False alarms, per 1,000 non-domestic properties in the authority’s area, caused by automatic fire detection equipment fitted in the premises. (b) Number of the properties in (a) where the fire and rescue services attended the property more than once in the financial year. (c) The percentage of all calls made to the fire and rescue services which are made in relation to a property where there has been more than one attendance by the fire and rescue services in the financial year.
6	Amount of expenditure per head of population in the authority’s area on the provision of fire and rescue services.
7	(a) The number of deliberate primary fires (excluding deliberate primary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population in the authority’s area. (b) The number of deliberate primary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population in the authority’s area. (c) The number of deliberate secondary fires (excluding deliberate secondary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population in the authority’s area. (d) The number of deliberate secondary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population in the authority’s area.
8	The number of fires in non-domestic premises in the authority’s area per 1,000 of such premises.
9	The percentage of people in accidental fires in dwellings who escaped unharmed without the assistance of the fire and rescue services.
10	The percentage of fires attended in dwellings where: (a) a smoke alarm had activated; (b) a smoke alarm was fitted but did not activate; (c) no smoke alarm was fitted.
11	The percentage of fire-fighters in the authority’s area who are female.