On-Call fire appliances availability 2025/26

Request detail

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting the following information.

If the information is not available for the entire period or in the exact format requested, please provide the data in whatever form you hold it, or the earliest year available. Likewise, if your authority does not hold data for one or more of the questions, please disregard those and proceed with providing the information you do hold. I would still welcome a partial response where possible.

Please share details of the Retained/On-Call fire appliances availability over the most recent 12-month period, stipulating the amount of time these appliances were ‘off the run’ (unavailable) to respond to an emergency.

I would like these details to be broken down on a station-by-station basis into:

1. The number of hours per month that an appliance was unavailable

 

2. The percentage of time per month that an appliance was unavailable

Ideally, the information would be shared in an excel spreadsheet, with tabs for both, per the below:

Percentage of fire appliances unavailable between July 2025 – July 2026

 

Hours fire appliances were unavailable between July 2025 – July 2026

Many thanks,