Section 1 - Personnel Levels
Question 1 - Wholetime Firefighter posts
a)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts you employed in financial year 2009-2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts you currently employ?Link 4.
c)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts you expect to employ by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 2 - Retained Firefighter posts
a)What is the total number of retained firefighter posts you employed in financial year 2009- 2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of fulltime retained firefighter posts you currently employ?Link 4.
c)What is the total number of fulltime retained firefighter posts you expect to employ by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 3 - Managerial posts
a)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts at station manager level or above you employed in financial year 2009-2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts at station manager level or above you currently employ?Link 4.
c)What is the total number of wholetime firefighter posts at station manager level or above you expect to employ by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 4 - Full-time Administrative posts
a)What is the total number of full-time administrative posts you employed in financial year 2009-2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of full-time administrative posts you currently employ?Link 4.
c)What is the total number of full-time administrative posts you expect to employ by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Section 2 - Premises and Plant
Question 5 - Fire Station numbers
a)What was the total number of wholetime stations in your authority in financial year 2009-2010?Link 1
b)What is the total number of wholetime stations currently in your authority?Link 5
c)What do you expect to be the total number of wholetime stations in your authority by the end ofeach of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 6 - Fire Station numbers
a)What was the total number of retained stations in your authority in financial year 2009-2010?Link 1
b)What is the total number of retained stations currently in your authority? Link 5
c)What do you expect to be the total number of retained stations in your authority by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 7 - Fire Station numbers
a)What was the total number of day crewed stations in your authority in financial year 2009-2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of day crewed stations currently in your authority? Link 5
c)What do you expect to be the total number of day crewed stations in your authority by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 8 - Fire Appliances
a)What was the total number of fire appliances in your authority in financial year 2009-2010? Link 1
b)What is the total number of fire appliances currently in your authority? Link 5
c)What do you expect to be the total number of fire appliances in your authority by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Section 3 - Staffing
Question 9 - Fire Station staffing
a)How many fire stations in your authority in financial year 2009-2010 were wholly staffed by retained firefighters?12
b)How many fire stations in your authority are currently wholly staffed by retained firefighters?11
c)How many fire stations do you expect to be wholly staffed by retained firefighters by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Question 10 - Fire Appliance staffing
a)How many appliances in your authority in financial year 2009-2010 were wholly staffed by retained firefighters?33
b)How many appliances in your authority are currently wholly staffed by retained firefighters?33
c)How many appliances do you expect to be wholly staffed by retainedfirefighters by the end of each of the following financial years: (i) 2006-2017, (ii) 2017-2018, (iii) 2018-2019, (iv) 2019-2020?
Section 4 - Response Times
Question 11 - Average response timesLink 2 – national publication, or alternatively they will need to clarify how this should be measured. When does the clock start and stop.
What is your average response time in responding to:
1) fire incidents in domestic dwellings
2) fire incidents in other residential buildings
3) fire incidents in other non-residential buildings
4) road traffic collisions for:
- financial year 2009-2010
- financial year 2010-2011
- financial year 2011-2012
- financial year 2012-2013
- financial year 2013-2014
- financial year 2014-2015
- financial year 2015-2016 (expected)
- financial year 2016-2017 (expected)
- financial year 2017-2018 (expected)
- financial year 2018-2019 (expected)
- financial year 2019-2020 (expected)
Question 12 - Expected changes to average response times
On your current expectations and proposals do you expect your response times in responding to fire incidents in dwellings to change and if so how? Link 3
Section 5 - Additional Information
Question 13 - Request for documentary information
Please provide me with copies of the minutes and notes of any formal or informal meetings and any other reports (including draft reports, option papers and internal correspondence) since 7 May 2015 that detail the impact or potential impact of cuts to funding on the fire service provided in your authority.Link 6,
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