Philip Davies – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of using the facewatch application to reduce the number of fire engine call outs to false alarms.

Greg Clark

We have made no assessment of the effectiveness of using Facewatch to reduce call outs to false alarms. Decisions on operational matters, including how to reduce and respond to false alarms, are best taken at the local level by fire and rescue authorities and their principal officers in the light of individual circumstances.