Bottled drinking water

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Dear Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service,

1. Please provide how much money was spent on the purchase of bottled drinking water by the Fire and Rescue Service in the following years:
2016/17
2015/16
2014/15
2013/14
2012/13

2. How did you provide drinking water to firefighters at incidents before the introduction of bottled drinking water?

3. What was the reason for your fire service introducing bottled drinking water?

4. What year did you begin to introduce bottled water?

Yours faithfully,

Dan Davis

Information Governance, Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Mr Davis

 

Reference number: FOI/FRS/08/17/13994

 

Thank you for your correspondence of the 04/08/2017 requesting the
following information:

 

1. Please provide how much money was spent on the purchase of bottled
drinking water by the Fire and Rescue Service in the following years:

2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/13

 

2. How did you provide drinking water to firefighters at incidents before
the introduction of bottled drinking water?

 

3. What was the reason for your fire service introducing bottled drinking
water?

 

4. What year did you begin to introduce bottled water?

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Information Access Team

Postal Point  CHN 305

Hertfordshire County Council,

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County Hall

Hertfordshire  SG13 8DE

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Information Governance, Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Mr Davis,

 

Reference number: FOI/FRS/08/17/13994

 

 

On 04/08/2017  we received the following request for information from you:

 

1. Please provide how much money was spent on the purchase of bottled
drinking water by the Fire and Rescue Service in the following years:

2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/13

 

2. How did you provide drinking water to firefighters at incidents before
the introduction of bottled drinking water?

 

3. What was the reason for your fire service introducing bottled drinking
water?

 

4. What year did you begin to introduce bottled water?

 

 

Your request for information has been considered under the Freedom of
Information Act. I can confirm that Hertfordshire County Council does hold
the information you have requested and can respond as follows:

 

1. Please provide how much money was spent on the purchase of bottled
drinking water by the Fire and Rescue Service in the following years:

2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/13

 

From To NET PRICE
01/04/2012 31/03/2013 £1,413.45
01/04/2013 31/03/2014 £698.88
01/04/2014 31/03/2015 £645.12
01/04/2015 31/03/2016 £645.12
01/04/2016 31/03/2017 £1,035.00
01/04/2017 03/07/2017 £1,440.00
£5,877.57  

 

2. How did you provide drinking water to firefighters at incidents before
the introduction of bottled drinking water?

 

By means provided by crews and Service provided refreshment packs
(Tea/Coffee) including the WI.

 

3. What was the reason for your fire service introducing bottled drinking
water?

 

Health Safety Welfare and Care in addition to Fire Service H&S publicity
drive to recognise and avoid Heat Stress.

 

4. What year did you begin to introduce bottled water?

 

Circa 2003

 

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Information Access Team

Postal Point  CHN 305

Hertfordshire County Council,

Pegs Lane

County Hall

Hertfordshire  SG13 8DE

t: 01992 555848 Comnet / Internal: 25848

Email: [email address]

 

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Dear Information Governance,

Thank you for your prompt response

Yours sincerely,

Dan