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Fleet Management Service - Fire Service (FOI)

Fleet Management Service - Fire Service (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 27 January 2023.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Please can you provide the below information relating to your Fire and Rescue Service, please can this be in either word or excel format.

A

Please can you confirm who your Head of Transport is and provide name and contact details including email address.

B

Can you share your fleet list, detailing make and model of assets? 

C

Please can you confirm who is your breakdown provider (2022)? 

D

Can you please confirm how your vehicles are serviced e.g. whether you have your own workshops/ use council workshops? 

E

Please confirm the total number of workshops and technicians you have that service your vehicle fleet? 

F

Please can you confirm your annual spend on service, maintenance (2021-2022)?

G

Please can you confirm your annual spend on damage repair (2021-2022)?

Response

A, C, D and E

The information you have requested in relation to the referenced questions is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is accessible by other means on www.gov.je  within a previous Freedom of Information response. Please see the following link:

Jersey Fleet Management service (FOI)

B

The following table details the requested information regarding the Fire and Rescue Service fleet vehicles.

Fleet Vehicles allocated to the Fire and Rescue Service​ ​

Make and ModelMake and Model

Make and Model

Volvo FL-290
Volvo FL 250Volvo FL-290
Volvo FL-260Skoda KaroqVolvo FL 250
Volvo FL-260Skoda KaroqBMW i3
Vauxhall ComboVolvo FL-260BMW i3
Mitsubishi FusoToyota Land CruiserBMW i3
LandRover 110 S/WToyota Hilux 4X4Mann
Subaru ForesterBMW i3Mann
Volvo FL 250BMW i3Mann

The annual costs for the service and maintenance of the Fire and Rescue service fleet vehicles are detailed below.

  • 2021 - £177,544.22
  • 2022 - £138,955.63

G

The figures shown in the response to question F include damage repairs since the Fleet Management team do not maintain a separate record regarding these.  Therefore, Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

It is not possible to extract the details requested as the systems are not configured in a way that will allow it.  A manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information. It is estimated that it would take in excess of 12.5 working hours to locate and retrieve the data in reference to your request.  This part of your request, therefore, will not be processed further.

A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

However, details of the insurance claims for the Fire and Service fleet vehicles has been provided below.

  • 2021 - £2,030.09
  • 2022 - £1,500

Articles applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it,the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

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