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NFRS 2022 80 - Payments to the Asian Fire Service Association

You asked for:

This is an information request relating to payments made to the Asian Fire Service Association (AFSA) by the Fire and Rescue service.

Please include the information for each of the following financial years; 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22:

  • How much is paid annually to AFSA
  • What services the fire service receives from AFSA for these payments

Our Response:

The 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 Expenditure over £250

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