Revenue budget 2014/15

Functional and Employee Analysis

Service Delivery

This includes operational response, covering the costs of the co-located control centre, crewing and running the fire stations, attending incidents, and community and technical fire safety.

Operational Policy and Resilience

This includes the cost of the training centre, operational pre-planning, emergency planning, and dealing with major incidents, including the Technical Rescue Team and national resilience. 

HR, Communications and Executive Support

This includes the costs of Human Resources, Policy, Communications, Members and Committee Services and the Corporate Management team.

Finance and Corporate Services

This includes the costs of property services, procurement, engineering, finance, and insurance and information services. Within this area is a new budget to support further collaborative working arrangements which will provide a platform to explore and develop further opportunities for joint or partnership working with other organisations.

Pensions, Financing and other costs

On a day to day basis these costs are reflected in the Finance and Corporate Services area. However, they have been presented separately in the table opposite to aid clarity to the budgets. Included here are those costs of the firefighter’s pension scheme which are not paid for by the Government, capital charges, borrowing costs, interest earned on deposits and transfers to/from the earmarked reserves.