This guide is designed to help you find information on our website. It has been created in accordance with the Joint Authorities and Boards model publication scheme.

Information which Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority is legally required to make publicly available can be found in the documents available for download section of this website.

If you cannot find any information about Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service on this website, use the feedback form to ask for it to be provided for you.

We provide information free of charge through our website. We will also provide a hard copy of specific information that is on our website free of charge for your own use.

1 Who we are and what we do

Organisational information, locations and contacts, constitutional and legal governance.

2 What we spend and how we spend it

Financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, tendering, procurement and contracts.

3 What our priorities are and how we are doing

Strategy and performance information, plans, assessments, inspections and reviews.

4 How we make decisions

Policy proposals and decisions. Decision making processes, internal criteria and procedures, consultations.

5 Our policies and procedures

Current written protocols for delivering our functions and responsibilities.

6 Lists and registers

Information held in registers required by law and other lists and registers relating to the functions of the authority.

7 The services we offer

Advice and guidance, booklets and leaflets, transactions and media releases. A description of the services offered.

Providing information

We provide information wherever possible, unless there are restrictions such as where:

• The law prevents us from providing the information, or it is exempt under the Freedom of Information Act.
  
  
• Information is in draft form.
  
  
• Information is has already been archived, or is difficult to access for similar reasons.

Charges for information

There is no charge for this information, and we will provide hard copies on request - please phone Gerry Barry on 01296 744442 or email gbarry@bucksfire.gov.uk