Employee Headcount
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WMFS OFFICIAL – NEW – FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – FOI24053
Ref: FOI/24053
RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST
I am writing to confirm that the West Midlands Fire Service has now completed its search for the information you requested further to your Freedom of Information request.
Please find below a summary of our findings.
Request
We would like to know how many (a) wholetime firefighter, (b) retained firefighter, (c) fire control room, (d) support staff and (e) total staff there were employed in your Fire and Rescue Service, measured by headcount, on 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2024.
We also request the (f) number of wholetime firefighters employed by your fire and rescue service as of 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2024 (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 2023:
| Headcount | |
| Wholetime | |
| Retained | |
| Control | |
| Support | |
| Total | |
| Wholetime-retained |
2) How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2024:
| Headcount | |
| Wholetime | |
| Retained | |
| Control | |
| Support | |
| Total | |
| Wholetime-retained |
Reply
1) How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2023:
| Headcount | |
| Wholetime | 1398 |
| Retained | 0 |
| Control | 59 |
| Support | 418 |
| Total | 1875 |
| Wholetime-retained |
2) How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2024:
| Headcount | |
| Wholetime | 1357 |
| Retained | 0 |
| Control | 60 |
| Support | 411 |
| Total | 1828 |
| Wholetime-retained |
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