Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many incident response units for the mass decontamination of members of the public there are in England which could be used in the event of a CBRNE attack; and how many such units are able to be deployed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Greg Clark

The Fire and Rescue Service provide a mass decontamination response capability on behalf of the Ambulance Service, which is deployable 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as part of the DCLG New Dimensions Programme.