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Senior Officers' Pay

The Government has a clear commitment to greater transparency of public information. In line with the publication of salary data on other senior public servants, local authorities are expected to publish data on their senior management from January 2011.

The policy intention is to show:

  • the salaries paid to members of the organisation’s senior management; and
  • the extent of the organisation’s establishment.

Regulation 4 of the Accounts and Audit (Amendment No.2) (England) Regulations 2009 [Statutory Instrument I 2009 No. 3322) introduced a legal requirement for reporting remuneration of senior employees to increase transparency and accountability in Local Government and this information on all payments and taxable benefits made to senior officers is already included in the annual Statement of Accounts.

However, because of the differences in interpretation of ‘senior’ amongst different public sector bodies the Government has asked all local authorities to publish salary details for its Senior Management Team and details about the extent of the organisation’s establishment.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service

It is appropriate to consider the organisational context of the Authority when reviewing the salaries paid to the Senior Management Team.

The Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority provides the statutory fire and rescue service to residents and visitors to Kent and Medway as required under the Fire Services Act 2004. This includes the rescue of persons from fire, road traffic collisions or other hazardous situations as well as other statutory duties such as fire safety enforcement in business premises and community safety, involving initiatives such as fire and road safety education programmes.

In addition the Authority also carries out some non-statutory activity including the rescue of animals or persons from a flood situation.

Through audit inspections and other reviews Kent Fire and Rescue Service has been consistently identified as one of the top performing Fire and Rescue Services in the country. Based on 2010/11 estimates, the Authority has the third largest revenue budget of all Combined Fire Authorities in England. The Authority provides cover for one of the (third) largest populated areas with the challenge of providing cover for both densely populated urban areas and also a significant amount of sparsely populated rural areas.

The Senior Management Team

In February 2011, the Senior Management Team reduced from nine to seven posts. Details of the composition and salary for these posts from this date can be downloaded from this page.

The files that can be downloaded from this page include the following information:

  • Name of Individual - This individual will be a member of the Senior Management Team and has given their consent for their name to be published.
  • Job Title - Identifies the position held in the Authority.
  • Service Area - Identifies the area of responsibility that the individual has in the Authority.
  • Full Time Equivalent (FTE) - FTE of the individual’s minimum contracted hours written as a number where 1.0 means full time
  • Annual FTE Salary - The annual salary that would be paid to the individual if working full time.

It is intended that this information will be updated twice a year, in line with the proposed guidelines.

The following lists the members of the Senior Management Team. If you click on the name of any individual you will find a copy of their job description which will identify their areas of responsibility.

Publishing formats

In line with Government guidelines we are publishing transparency data in two formats - PDF (portable document file) and CSV (comma-separated values). The PDF format is the easiest format in which to read the data but it does not allow the data to be analysed or sorted, so if you wish to do this then you should use the CSV format, which allows you to put the data into a spreadsheet.

Viewing CSV format data

Please note that the CSV format uses a standard column width and not all entries may be completely visible.

To view all of the data, you will need to expand the columns. You can do this in Microsoft Excel and most other spreadsheet software by selecting all the cells in the file (the grey box beside column A and above row 1), and then clicking on Format > Column > AutoFitSelection.

More information

If you have any queries about the information in these reports please email spendenquiry@kent.fire-uk.org

Downloads

Information about senior officers' pay is available to view and download in CSV and Adobe PDF format.

This data is published under the Open Government Licence for public sector information.

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