Wholetime Firefighters Employed - Find a freedom of information request

Below is the information we would like to obtain from you under the Freedom of Information Act.

Specifically, we would like to know how many wholetime firefighter, retained firefighter, fire control room, support staff and total staff there were employed in your Fire and Rescue Service, measured by headcount, on 31 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.

We also request the number of wholetime firefighters employed by your fire and rescue service as of 31 March 2021 and 31 March 2022 (headcount) that also work a retained contract, and therefore could be described as 'wholetime-retained'. To clarify, we only request the number of wholetime firefighters with an additional retained contract - we are not asking whether it is with your own or another fire and rescue service.

We would appreciate a table for the respective years detailing the data in the following format:

1. How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2021:

a. Headcount.

b. Wholetime.

c. Retained.

d. Control.

e. Support.

f. Total.

g. Wholetime-retained.

2. How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2022:

a. Headcount.

b. Wholetime.

c. Retained.

d. Control.

e. Support.

f. Total.

g. Wholetime-retained.

Please note this is the same criteria used for reporting to governments.

1. March 2021 

2. March 2022