NFRS 2024 79 - Primary and Secondary Fires

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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you disclose the following information:

1. In the last 5 years, how many primary and secondary fire incidents did the service attend (Broken down by years, 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)
   1. Could these figures be broken down separately for specific neighbourhoods in the area that the service covers?
2. In the last 5 years, how many incidents were classed as ‘deliberate fires’ (Broken down by years, 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)
   1. How many of these deliberate fires resulted in an injury to a person? (Broken down by years, 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)

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Our Response

1. In the last 5 years, how many primary and secondary fire incidents did the service attend (Broken down by years, 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)
   Answer: - Please refer to the information below.
2. In the last 5 years, how many incidents were classed as ‘deliberate fires’ (Broken down by years, 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)
   Answer: - Exempt by virtue of Section 21 (Information accessible to applicant by other means) of 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. Fire statistics data tables - GOV.UK