Request for various costs by the West Midlands Fire Service

Dear Mr Walker,

Thank you for your email sent to our Data Manager requesting an internal
review of our handling of your Freedom of Information request.
Unfortunately, I have no record of receiving your original request.

The West Midlands Fire Service endeavours to respond promptly to all
requests for information that are received, and certainly within the
statutory 20 working days unless the request is complex and it may take
longer. If this was the situation you would have been notified. We also
aim to provide all information at the lowest cost to the requestor. I have
now printed off a copy of your original request from the link that you
provided and this will be dealt with under The Freedom of Information Act
2000. I will contact you in due course.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact either myself or
the Data Manager and we will endeavour to answer any queries.

Kindest Regards

Beci

Data Management

West Midlands Fire Service

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Our ref. FOI/09/25

Dear Mr Walker,

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST

I apologise for the delay in responding to this request. I am writing to
confirm that the West Midlands Fire Service has now completed its search
for the information you requested regarding running costs for the West
Midlands Fire Service Headquarters.

I am pleased to provide details of the information you have requested.
There will be no charge for this set of information.

Can you tell me what the overall running cost of the current West

Midlands Fire Service Head Quarters are including heating,

lighting, taxation and or outstanding loan repayments if any.

Can you include figures for the last financial year, 2007-2008 and

projected figures for the next 3 years for this request.

Running Costs

Please find set out below the total running costs for the Headquarters and
Safeside buildings for 2007-08 and the next three years (2007/2008 &
2008/2009 actual; 2009/2010 & 2010/2011 estimated):

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
0 620 1,148 1,156

It should be noted that the largest individual cost within the above
figures relates to the Business Rates of the combined site. An appeal is
currently being considered regarding the scale of this cost.

In addition to this, what has been the cost of the Fire Service

board for the last 3 financial years (2007-2008, 2006-2007,

2005-2006) and the projected cost for this year (2008-2009) and the

subsequent two years.

Fire Service Board

The request asked for the cost of the Fire Service Board. It has been
assumed that given the initial question related to the running costs of
the new Headquarters site that the reference to the Fire Service is
seeking to establish the dedicated project team costs associated with the
HQ and Safeside project. The table below sets out the actual (2005/2006
to 2008/2009) and estimated (2009/2010 & 2010/2011) costs relating to the
dedicated project team.

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
0 170 185 271 52 0

I hope this provides all the information you require. Should you require
further clarification please contact either myself or the Data Manager.

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Kindest Regards

Beci

Data Management

West Midlands Fire Service

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