Dear Jack Chiverton

Thank you for your request which has been assigned reference FOI/3462

Freedom of Information request - Incident statistics for 2020-21

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(FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), we aim to
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Yours sincerely,
West Sussex County Council

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Dear Jack Chiverton,

Our Ref: FOI/3462

On 17/02/2022 you made the following request for information, which has
been dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

FOI Re: Fire and Rescue - Incident statistics for 2020-21

We have now completed a search for the information which you requested and
confirm that this Authority holds data relevant to your request.

The Response to your request is as follows:

Please find attached a spreadsheet containing data relating to questions 1
to 8.

 Please note the following:

 Question 4. Retained Duty System availability per appliance

We don’t report availability by appliance, we report the percentage of
shifts where the full requirement of firefighters are available at each
station. This is what has been included in the data

 Question 9. Number of incidents reported in West Sussex that were not
attended

We do not hold information on the number of emergency calls that we did
not attend.  Our Service operates a Joint Fire Control with Surrey FRS,
who receive emergency calls on common lines and who were, for the period
in question, unable to separate WSFRS emergency call statistics from
Surrey FRS emergency calls. there is no information relating to this
question in the spreadsheet.

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Dear Jack Chiverton

Thank you for your request which has been assigned reference FOI/3551

Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Incident statistics
for 2020-21

If you have submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), we aim to
respond within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, i.e. by or on
08/04/2022. However please be aware that many of our services continue to
experience pressures due to the Covid-19 pandemic so your response may be
delayed beyond that timescale.

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this request, please
reply to this email leaving the subject line unchanged.

Yours sincerely,
West Sussex County Council

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Dear Jack Chiverton ,

Thank you for your request for a review of your request FOI 3462.  I

The purpose of a review under the legislation is to check whether all the
information held by the council has been supplied, and/or whether any
exemptions have been properly applied. It is not clear from your request
what you think it is about the response from the council that you feel
does not meet the requirements of the legislation. If you are saying that
you don't think the council has complied with the legislation in answering
your previous request then please could you set out what you think has
been done incorrectly. 

If on the other hand you are now asking for information that was not
covered by your request, then this would be treated as a separate request,
and not as a review. If this is a request for separate information, please
could you set out exactly what you are asking for, as it is not clear from
your review request.

Please send your clarification by responding to this email. Please do not
amend the Subject line.

if we do not receive clarification within 40 working days we will treat
the request as having been withdrawn, in line with the ICO Section 45 Code
of Practice.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Dave Loveman

Customer Relations Manager