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FOI / 3965 / 2019 - Wildfires

 

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold this information.

Please see below the answer to your request.

Final Response:

1. The estimated expenditure by the department on tackling forest fires / wild fires per year beginning in 2014.

I can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold this information, however from our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with your request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is currently £450. This limit is calculated 18 hours of work at a cost of £25 per hour.

The information you have requested is not available because this will involve retrieving information from over 4000 files. We estimate this as taking 1 minutes per file x 4000 files = 66 hours. Therefore we will not be complying with this part of your request. In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in respect of this part of your request.

2. The overall operational budget of the department per year beginning in 2014.

2014/15 £79,533,000

2015/16 £75,438,000

2016/17 £75,619,000

2017/18 £73,843,000

2018/19 £72,594,000

The full budget information is available from our statutory documents and performance reports published every year.

3. The number of forest fires/wild fires dealt with by the department per year beginning in 2014. 

See attached Excel spreadsheet

Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire & Rescue Service.

 


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