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NFRS 2025 14 - Equality and Diversity

You asked for

  1. How many equality and diversity posts are employed in your authority?
  2. What is the cost of such posts and any necessary direct admin support?
  3. How many of these posts are filled by ethnic minority applicants?
  4. What is the number and cost of external training bodies and courses for equalityand diversity training?

Our Response

Answer: -

  1. There is a total of 1 equality and diversity post within the service.
  2. Pay band is Grade 6 £37,938 to £41,151
  3. Exempt by virtue of Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
  4. A total of 3 external providers amount to £2,628.30 for the 24/25 financial year (to date).

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 (b)
  2. 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 out nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.