Number of Fire and Rescue Staff - Find a freedom of information request

I have been asked by our Research and Policy Officer to obtain the following information as we are collecting information about the number of staff employed by fire and rescue services.

Below is the information we would like to obtain from you under the Freedom of Information Act. Specifically, we would like to know how many

(a) wholetime firefighter,

(b) retained firefighter,

(c) fire control room,

(d) support staff and

(e) total staff there were employed by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service, measured by headcount, on 31 March 2020 and 31 March 2021.

We also request the (f) number of wholetime firefighters employed by Lincolnshire fire and rescue service as of 31 March 2020 and 31 March 2021 (headcount) that also work a retained contract, and therefore could be described as 'wholetime-retained'.

To clarify, we only request the number of wholetime firefighters with an additional retained contract - we are not asking whether it is with your own or another fire and rescue service. We would appreciate a table for the respective years detailing the data in the following format:

1) How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2020:

• Headcount
• Wholetime
• Retained
• Control Support
• Total
• Wholetime-retained

2) How many people were employed by the fire and rescue service (headcount) in the following roles on 31 March 2021:

• Headcount
• Wholetime Retained
• Control Support
• Total
• Wholetime-retained

Please note this is the same criteria used for reporting to governments.