Publication Scheme
Although information in each class is generally published, some documents will occasionally be exempt by law. Such information may be deleted from those documents before publication. While the cost for the majority of requests is free, this depends on the amount of information requested and the time taken to retrieve it.
Contact Details
Information Management Officer
Email FOITeam@merseyfire.gov.uk
Tel - 0151 296 4425
Who we are and what we do
| Subject area: | Organisational information |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Structure and membership of the Authority |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services |
| How to request information: | Link to Fire Authority |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Locations and contact information - locations of fire stations, admin offices and Fire Service contact details |
| Department responsible: | Service Headquarters Reception |
| How to request information: | Link to station information or call reception on 0151 296 4000 for other details |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Constitutional and legal governance, general outline of responsibilities of the Fire Service |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services, Operational Preparedness |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Recruitment |
| Department responsible: | People and Organisational Development |
| How to request information: | Recruitment Charter |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
What we spend and how we spend it
| Subject area: | Payments to suppliers greater than £500 |
| Department responsible: | Finance |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE (Additional information subject to FOI protocols) |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Staffing, pay and conditions |
| Department responsible: | Finance, People and Organisational Development |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Financial control of expenditure, budgets, income, investment scheme, budget planning, budget monitoring, financial review, final accounts |
| Department responsible: | Finance |
| How to request information: | Link to MFRS Finances |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Members Allowance |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services, Finance and Strategy and Performance Department |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
Our priorities and progress
| Subject area: | Operational Assessment, Inspections and Reviews, Statement of Assurance |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | Link to Service Delivery Plan |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Response times |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Audit reports, performance statistics, performance and service delivery |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | IRMP |
| Department responsible: | All Departments |
| How to request information: | Link to IRMP details |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
How we make decisions
| Subject area: | Policy Proposals and Decisions. Decision making processes, internal criteria and procedures, consultants |
| Department responsible: | All Departments |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Industrial relations - equal opportunities - early retirement |
| Department responsible: | People and Organisational Development |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Disciplinary tribunal - monitoring code of conduct |
| Department responsible: | People and Organisational Development |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Reports & minutes of meetings of Merseyside Fire & Rescue Authority (except exempt reports) |
| Department responsible: | All departments |
| How to request information: | Link to Fire Authority |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
Our Policies and Procedures
| Subject area: | Current written protocols for delivering our functions and responsibilities |
| Department responsible: | Legal, Procurement and Democratic Services |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Information sharing protocols |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Development, promotion and delivery of community risk management |
| Department responsible: | Community Risk Management |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Fire Safety Legislation |
| Department responsible: | Community Risk Management |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Conditions of Service; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Absence and sickness procedures |
| Department responsible: | Time and Resource Management |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Health and safety |
| Department responsible: | Health and Safety Department |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Freedom of Information, Environmental Regulations, Data Protection, Local Transparency Data |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | Link to Access to Information |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
Lists and Registers
| Subject area: | Information held in registers required by law and other lists and registers relating to the functions of the authority. Licensing, Registration and Certificate Issue (in compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the Explosives and Petroleum Legislation). |
| Department responsible: | Community Risk Management |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
The services we offer
| Subject area: | Incident Reports |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | In writing, via email or the MFRS website |
| Cost: | £155 |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Recruitment |
| Department responsible: | People and Organisational Development |
| How to request information: | Link to Recruitment Charter |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Community Safety; home, schools, children, arson, commercial, community safety, after-fire care |
| Department responsible: | Community Risk Management |
| How to request information: | Link to Community Fire Stations |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Press releases, newsletters, appliance photographs, equipment photographs |
| Department responsible: | Strategy and Performance |
| How to request information: | In writing, via email or the MFRS website |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |
| Subject area: | Environmental energy efficiency |
| Department responsible: | Estates |
| How to request information: | In writing or via email |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Format: | Hardcopy/Digital/Website |