SHROPSHIRE AND WREKIN FIRE AUTHORITY Shropshire and Wrekin PRECEPT 2007/08 Fire Authority CONSULTATION • A Fire Authority “Performing Strongly” District or Parish or SWFA Borough' • But, at what Cost? Town 5% 10% 2% WMPA 11% • National Funding SCC 72% • Efficiencies and Service Developments JANUARY 2007 • Options and Proposals Performance Service Assessment Service Delivery Value for Money Improvement • Focused on Service Delivery • Two Elements – Operational Assessment – Performance Information • Scores Combined Performance Indicators REF Description of PI Lower Upper Adjusted SFRS Threshold Threshold • A number of slides relating to the F1 Primary fires per 10,000 pop 15.2 7.5 Deprivation 7.57 Mid F2 Accidental dwelling fires per 9.9 5.2 Deprivation 6.07 performance of the Fire Authority have 10,000 dwellings Mid been removed from this presentation in F3 Deaths arising from 0.625 0.5 None 0.49* accidental dwelling fires Upper per 100,000 population compliance with requests of the Audit F4 Injuries arising from 6.0 2.0 Deprivation -0.5 Commission. accidental dwelling fires Upper per 100,000 population F5 Percentage of accidental 89.60% 91.30% None 91.31% • Full reporting is scheduled for March dwelling fires confined to Upper room of origin 2007 F6 False alarms caused by 150.9 112.2 None 83.61 automatic fire detection Upper attended per 1,000 non- domestic properties F7 Number of deliberate primary No change or Net reduction – None 44% reduction fires (including vehicles) increase 7.5% from per 10,000 population from 2001/02 to Upper 2004/05 to 2005/06 2005/06 1 An Authority “Performing Strongly” But at what Cost? Council Tax Council Tax Shrewsbury 2006/07 Telford and Wrekin 2006/07 South Shropshire Oswestry 2006/07 2006/07 SCC 931.86 BTW and Parish 995.05 WMPA 150.24 WMPA 150.24 SCC 931.86 SCC 931.86 SABC and Parish 152.92 WMPA 150.24 WMPA 150.24 S.Shrops & Parish 251.90 Oswestry & Parish 230.70 SWFA 72.62 SWFA 72.62 Total 1307.64 Total 1217.91 SWFA 72.62 SWFA 72.62 Total 1406.62 Total 1385.42 Fire makes up 5% of How does this compare? Council Tax in Shropshire District or Parish or SWFA Borough Town 5% 10% 2% WMPA 11% SCC 72% 2 Net Expenditure per Head of Population (£s) White Paper “Our Fire and Rescue Service” Rescue and “Our Fire Paper White – June 2003 • inrural ofunderinvestment Years • aresultoftheunfairbalance As Cost PerHeadofPopulation protecting buildings incity centres (where deaths are low) 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 compared to what we devote in residential areas (where (where areas residential in we devote what to compared 0.0 “At the present time we devote many more resources to services for FireandRescueAuthorities andlocalfunding between national Second highest Precept, What GovernmentSaid: Net expenditureper head(£)2004/05 “THIS MUST CHANGE” Unfair Funding deathsare much higher)” Why? Shropshire and WrekinShropshire Fire Authority Grant Per Head (£) 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 0.00 5.00 Changes toFundingDistribution • But – Coastline is stillinandSparsity isnot! • Based upon societal risknotnumber of fire • Weighting forCommunity Fire doubledSafety • Population aged over 65taken intoaccount • No longer based uponbuildings Shropshire £15.06 Hereford & Worcester Fire Authority Government Funding 2006/07 certificates issued (3% to6%) Wiltshire Fire Authority Dorset Fire Authority Council Tax Band D (£) Shropshire Fire Authority 10.00 20.00 30.00 40.00 50.00 60.00 70.00 80.00 - Staffordshire Fire Authority Government Grant Head Per of Population 2006/07 West Midlands Buckinghamshire Fire Authority Council Tax2006/07 Leicestershire Fire Authority Cheshire Fire Authority West Yorkshire Greater Manchester Hampshire Fire Authority Berkshire Fire Authority Council Tax at Band D - Band 2006/07 at Council Tax Cambridgeshire Fire Authority Buckinghamshire Fire Authority North Yorkshire Fire Authority Cambridgeshire Fire Authority Dorset Fire Authority Derbyshire Fire Authority Avon Fire Authority Kent Fire Authority South Yorkshire Wiltshire Fire Authority Average £57.02 Devon Fire Authority Cleveland Fire Authority Bedfordshire Fire Authority Hampshire Fire Authority North Yorkshire Fire Authority Essex Fire Authority Lancashire Fire Authority East Sussex Fire Authority Average £20.43 Merseyside Leicestershire Fire Authority Average of all Staffordshire Fire Authority Berkshire Fire Authority Derbyshire Fire Authority Nottinghamshire Fire Authority Essex Fire Authority Kent Fire Authority Average of all Cheshire Fire Authority Shropshire £72.62 Durham Fire Authority Nottinghamshire Fire Authority Devon Fire Authority Lancashire Fire Authority Hereford & Worcester Fire Authority Avon Fire Authority Humberside Fire Authority West Yorkshire Tyne & Wear East Sussex Fire Authority Humberside Fire Authority Bedfordshire Fire Authority South Yorkshire Shropshire Fire Authority Durham Fire Authority Greater Manchester West Midlands Tyne & Wear Merseyside Cleveland Fire Authority 3 Good News BUT! Percentage Grant Changes for 2007/08 25% • Using the new funding formula, changes 20% Shropshire + 14.27% (£6.9 million to £7.9 million) range between -11.8% and + 23.4% 15% • Considered too great an impact 10% • Flooring is used to dampen change 5% • For 2007/08 no Fire and Rescue Authority 0% can get less than 2.7% increase in funding -5% Percentage Increase 2006/07 to 2007/08 to 2006/07 Increase Percentage -10% • Those above the floor must pay to bring up those below -15% London Kent Fire Avon Fire Essex Fire Essex Devon Fire Dorset Fire Dorset Durham Fire Durham Wiltshire Fire Cheshire Fire Berkshire Fire Berkshire Cleveland Fire Cleveland Hampshire Fire Hampshire Shropshire Fire Fire Derbyshire Lancashire Fire Merseyside Fire Merseyside Humberside Fire Humberside East Sussex Fire Bedfordshire Fire Bedfordshire Staffordshire Fire Staffordshire Leicestershire Fire West Midlands Fire Midlands West Tyne and Wear Fire Cambridgeshire Fire Cambridgeshire West Yorkshire Fire Yorkshire West North Yorkshire Fire Yorkshire North Nottinghamshire Fire Nottinghamshire South YorkshireFire Buckinghamshire Fire Buckinghamshire Greater Manchester Fire Hereford and Worcester Fire Worcester and Hereford The Impact of Flooring Increase after Flooring Financial Impact of Flooring 2007/08 Percentage Grant Increase after Flooring 2007/08 14.0 5.0% 12.0 4.5% Shropshire 3.73% (£250,000) 4.0% 10.0 3.5% 8.0 3.0% 6.0 Shropshire Increase Reduced by £730,000 2.5% 4.0 2.0% 2.0 Percentage Increase Percentage 1.5% Gains and Losses (£millions) Losses and Gains 0.0 1.0% -2.0 0.5% 0.0% -4.0 Kent Fire Kent Avon Fire London Essex Fire Essex Devon Fire Dorset Fire Dorset Kent FireKent Durham Fire Avon Fire Wiltshire Fire Essex Fire Essex Devon Fire Cheshire Fire Cheshire Dorset Fire Dorset Berkshire Fire Cleveland FireCleveland Durham Fire Hampshire Fire Derbyshire Fire Derbyshire Shropshire Fire Wiltshire Fire Lancashire Fire Cheshire Fire Merseyside Fire Humberside Fire Berkshire Fire Berkshire Cleveland Fire GLA -GLA non-police East Sussex Fire Sussex East Bedfordshire Fire Hampshire Fire Hampshire Staffordshire Fire Shropshire Fire Fire Derbyshire Lancashire Fire Merseyside Fire Leicestershire Fire Humberside Fire West Midlands FireWest Midlands East Sussex Fire Sussex East Tyne Fire and Wear West Yorkshire Fire Yorkshire West Cambridgeshire Fire North Yorkshire Fire Bedfordshire Fire Nottinghamshire FireNottinghamshire Staffordshire Fire South YorkshireSouth Fire Buckinghamshire Fire Leicestershire Fire West Midlands FireWest Midlands Tyne and Wear Fire Cambridgeshire Fire West Yorkshire Fire North Yorkshire Fire Yorkshire North Nottinghamshire Fire South YorkshireSouth Fire Buckinghamshire Fire Greater Manchester Fire Greater Manchester Fire Hereford and Worcester Fire Hereford and Worcester Fire Why £19.079 million? What Does This Mean? • Base Budget (includes committed changes) £18.323m • Pay and Prices £598,000 Budget Grant Council Tax Band D % Change • Capital (revenue consequences) £73,000 (£ millions) (£ millions) (£ millions) Council Tax 2006/07 18.296 6.936 11.360 £72.62 (4.5% on • Efficiencies and Savings -£195,000 2005/06) • New Service Developments £280,000 2007/08 19.079 7.926 11.153 £71.10 -2.09% TOTAL FOR CONSIDERATION BY SCRUTINY PANEL £19.079 Before Flooring 2007/08 19.079 7.195 11.884 £75.78 4.35% After Flooring 4 2006/07 Budget Breakdown 2006/07 Employee Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority Budget Breakdown 2006/07 Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority Breakdown of Employee Costs 2006/07 0%0% 3% 0% 2% 2% 4% 3% 3% 4% 11% Employees and Pension 5% Supplies and Services Premises Wholetime Firefighters and Pensions Administration Retained Firefighters and Pensions 6% Provision Pay and Prices Support Staff Transport Control Debt Charges Training Costs 21% Operational Leasing 61% Indirect Staff Costs Provision Other Contribution to Reserves 75% Employee Costs Account 86% of Employee Costs are Service Delivery For 75% of Budget Capital Efficiencies & Savings CAPITAL PROGRAMME 2007/08 £ 000s EFFICIENCIES BUILDINGS ¾Building Improvements (Retained Stations) 65 ¾Garaging for Ford Ranger at Oswestry 20 Hydrant Maintenance (contract reduction) £20,000 ¾Fire Alarm Installations (Wholetime Stations) 100 ¾Tweedale Improvements 35 Rental Income (Ambulance at Market Drayton) £9,000 ¾Telford Central Improvements 100 VEHICLES Personal Protective Equipment (re-issue of fire kit) £20,000 ¾3 XL Cab (8 seater) Fire Engines 510 ¾Ford Rangers (Oswestry, Tweedale and Reserve) 80 Re-deployment rather than ill-health retirement £16,000 EQUIPMENT