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. Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 – Our research project study firefighters’ demographics, lifestyle and wider characteristics linked to their life expectancy. To proceed, we need to know the overall Firefighter’s population which includes firefighters who left the service from Essex County Fire & Rescue Service. Can you please confirm you have data?
Yes
Question 2 – Can you please confirm if I included all Fire and Rescue Services you cover? (If not, can you please specify which I missed, and include them as well)
Yes, information provided relates to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
Question 3 – Will it be possible to obtain from you the total number of male pensioners (firefighters) you have in each of the age groups specified below in each year (2000-2021) who you pay a pension to because of firefighter service (please see the Table below). Please use one table for all the Services (add them all up) and include any missed from my list.
See attached pdf which has the information requested.
Question4 if possible, to provide numbers how many of the pension scheme members (male firefighters) died each year for 2000 to 2021 (as a total number -not divided by age categories). Please use one table for all the Services (add them all up) and include any missed from my list
See attached pdf which has the information requested.
Question 5 - Finally, can you please confirm whether in your pension scheme you include also: retained duty system firefighters (On-Call) and fire control (operators)?
The data includes On-Call firefighters but not Fire Control Operators
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. For further information please follow this link. Incident Data (essex-fire.gov.uk)