NFRS 2022 116 - Fire safety audits

You asked for:

1. How many fire safety audits have been undertaken at hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
2. How many of these fire safety audits at hotels were “unsatisfactory” in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
3. How many enforcement notices - article 30 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
4. How many prohibition notices - article 31 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
5. How many prosecutions - article 32 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date

Our Response:

1. How many fire safety audits have been undertaken at hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to 02/03/2023?
   • 2017/18 Answer: - 402
   • 2018/19 Answer: - 473
   • 2019/20 Answer: - 385
   • 2020/21 Answer: - 125
   • 2021/22 Answer: - 277
   • 2022/23 to 02/03/2023 Answer: - 442

   * Searches performed where the property type is ‘Hotel’ and the inspection type is ‘Fire Safety Audit’.

2. How many of these fire safety audits at hotels were “unsatisfactory” in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to 02/03/2023?
   • 2017/18 Answer: - 127
   • 2018/19 Answer: - 141
   • 2019/20 Answer: - 103
   • 2020/21 Answer: - 32
   • 2021/22 Answer: - 85
   • 2022/23 to 02/03/2023 Answer: - 122

   * Searches performed where the property type is ‘Hotel’, the inspection type is ‘Fire Safety Audit’, and the outcome is set to ‘Unsatisfactory’.

3. How many enforcement notices - article 30 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
4. How many prohibition notices - article 31 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date
5. How many prosecutions - article 32 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - have been served to hotels in each of the last six financial years, including the current financial year to date?
   • 2017/18
   • 2018/19
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22
   • 2022/23 to date

The remaining information requested has been deemed exempt by virtue of section 21(1) Information reasonably accessible by other means, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

21. Information accessible to applicant by other means.

1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
2. For the purposes of subsection (1)—
   1. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
   2. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
3. For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as an Absolute and Class Based type exemption and therefore does not require a public interest test to be carried nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.

The information requested can be accessed at the following location. Search Enforcement Register - National Fire Chiefs Council