Headcount 2025 and 2026

Request detail

We are collecting information about the number of staff employed by fire and rescue services. Below is the information we would like to obtain from you under the Freedom of Information Act.

Specifically, 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 2025 and 31 March 2026.

We also request the (f) number of wholetime firefighters employed by your fire and rescue service as of 31 March 2025 and 31 March 2026 (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.