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NFRS 2022 50 - Incident location

You asked for:

Please may you provide me with the most recent raw fire incident data available in tabular format, for the years 2018 – present. Explicitly we need the coordinates of the fires (to the nearest meter), the date the fire occurred, and any information on the fire itself (type and cause for example).

Our Response:

Answer: - Please refer to the attached incident data Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx, 1.4Mb)

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service has deemed part of the information requested exempt by virtue of section 40(2) personal information of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Section 40: - Personal Information

(2) Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if—

  1. it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1), and
  2. the first, second or third condition below is satisfied.

(3A) The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act—

  1. would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
  2. would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 (manual unstructured data held by public authorities) were disregarded.

(3B) The second condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene Article 21 of the GDPR (general processing: right to object to processing).

(4A) The third condition is that—

  1. on a request under Article 15(1) of the GDPR (general processing: right of access by the data subject) for access to personal data, the information would be withheld in reliance on provision made by or under section 15, 16 or 26 of, or Schedule 2, 3 or 4 to, the Data Protection Act 2018, or
  2. (b) on a request under section 45(1)(b) of that Act (law enforcement processing: right of access by the data subject), the information would be withheld in reliance on subsection (4) of that section.

Section 40 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.

This Letter constitutes a refusal notice in part under Section 17(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.