NFRS 2023 52 - Wholetime establishment
You asked for:
Please can you provide me with your wholetime establishment figures for the following ranks/roles.
These numbers should reflect what the establishment should be if all roles are filled.
Numbers of each -
- Chief Fire officer
- Deputy Chief Fire officer
- Assistant Chief Fire Officer/Assistant Chief Officer
- Area Managers
- Group Managers
- Station Managers
- Watch Managers
- Crew Managers
- Firefighters
- Area Managers (Control)
- Group Managers (Control)
- Station Managers (Control)
- Watch Managers (Control)
- Crew Managers (Control)
- Firefighters (Control)
Our Response:
Answer: - 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.
- Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1is exempt information.
- For the purposes of subsection (1)—
- Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessibleonly on payment, and
- Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is informationwhich the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment tocommunicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) tomembers of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
- For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and doesnot fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to theapplicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself onrequest, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’spublication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordancewith, 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.