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NFRS 2024 75 - Arson

You asked for

  1. How many times has your force been called out to deal with arson to a VEHICLE in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014.Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
  2. How many times has your force been called out to deal with arson to a HOUSE in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
  3. How many times has your force been called out to deal with arson to a BUSINESS in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
  4. How many people have died from cases of arson in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be brokendown by month.

Our Response

21.Information accessible to applicant by other means.

  1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1is exempt information.
  2. For the purposes of subsection (1)—
    1. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessibleonly on payment, and
    2. 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.
  3. 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: Fire statistics data tables - GOV.UK