Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 – How many fire engine movements per month are made to cover On-Call stations when not available for fire calls? Please date this back to January 2023. For example, January 2023 – 7, February 2023 – 8 and so on.
The information is contained within the table below:
Year /Month Number of appliance movements to cover On Call stations
2023-1 38
2023-2 78
2023-3 123
2023-4 122
2023-5 171
2023-6 169
2023-7 168
2023-8 304
2023-9 260
2023-10 301
2023-11 232
2023-12 278
2024-1 151
2024-2 175
2. What is the cost of these movements per month? Please include the cost of paying staff during these movements. For example, if 100 fire engines were moved in a month at a cost of £1,000 for each movement – including pay for the staff being moved - the total cost for the month would £100,000.
The information is contained within the table below:
Month (2023) Amount (£)
January 19607.00
February 14696.00
March 20037.00
April 21549.00
May 14138.00
June 31945.00
July 28177.00
August 34951.00
September 60960.00
October 39799.00
November 37490.00
December 26662.00
Total for 2023 350011.00
3. How many firefighters within ECFRS have more than two additional contracts with the service? Please provide a breakdown as follows: -
More than two additional contracts. -
More than three additional contracts. -
More than four additional contracts. -
More than five additional contracts. -
More than six additional contracts. -
More than seven additional contracts. -
More than eight additional contracts. -
More than nine additional contracts. -
More than ten additional contracts.
Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (ECFRS) have no records of any firefighters that are employed on more than two additional contracts with ECFRS.
We hope you find this information useful.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essexfire.gov.uk).
Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on our website http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/.
All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.
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