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Standalone FRA financial reserves: March 2020

Published 16 May 2023

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Standalone FRA reserve levels as at March 2020

Fire and Rescue Authority General Fund £m Earmarked reserves £m Total resource reserves £m Capital reserves £m 2020/21 Core Spending Power £m Resource reserves as a percentage of Core Spending Power %
Avon 1.5 7.8 9.3 5.2 44.3 21%
Bedfordshire 2.6 12.9 15.5 0.7 30.4 51%
Berkshire 2.3 6.7 9.0 0.0 34.5 26%
Buckinghamshire 1.5 3.6 5.1 0.0 28.1 18%
Cambridgeshire 3.2 7.5 10.6 3.9 30.1 35%
Cheshire 2.3 19.3 21.5 0.0 44.0 49%
Cleveland 1.6 8.2 9.8 0.0 27.4 36%
Derbyshire 1.9 6.6 8.5 1.6 38.5 22%
Devon and Somerset 5.3 33.5 38.8 0.0 77.6 50%
Dorset and Wiltshire 2.8 14.9 17.7 0.0 57.2 31%
Durham and Darlington 1.5 4.5 5.9 0.0 29.4 20%
East Sussex 1.9 13.8 15.7 7.6 39.2 40%
Essex 3.4 10.5 14.0 8.5 73.4 19%
Hampshire [footnote 1] 2.5 28.8 31.3 0.0 67.0 47%
Hereford and Worcester 1.5 12.4 14.0 0.0 32.4 43%
Humberside 5.8 5.8 11.5 0.0 44.5 26%
Kent 3.5 29.9 33.4 9.2 72.8 46%
Lancashire 6.4 7.8 14.2 19.7 56.3 25%
Leicestershire 2.2 13.1 15.3 0.0 36.1 42%
Merseyside [footnote 2] 3.0 18.8 21.8 3.6 62.4 35%
Northamptonshire [footnote 3] 1.2 0.8 1.9 1.0 23.4 8%
North Yorkshire 1.0 3.9 4.9 0.1 31.5 16%
Nottinghamshire 5.0 4.8 9.8 0.3 42.8 23%
Shropshire 1.1 15.2 16.3 0.0 22.6 72%
South Yorkshire 5.6 14.1 19.8 0.3 51.6 38%
Staffordshire 1.9 14.4 16.3 0.0 42.0 39%
Tyne and Wear 3.9 29.4 33.4 2.4 49.6 67%
West Midlands 5.8 30.1 36.0 2.3 98.7 36%
West Yorkshire 5.0 29.7 34.7 0.0 82.9 42%
Total (excluding London Fire Commissioner) 87.1 408.6 495.7 66.4 1370.6 36%
London Fire Commissioner [footnote 4] 15.8 62.3 78.1 1.5 2264.2  

Notes

Source: All figures taken from audited FRA statements of accounts.

Figures may not sum due to rounding. Resource reserves as a percentage of core spending power show reserves as a percentage of 2020 to 2021 core spending power (government grant, retained business rates and precept).

  1. Hampshire FRS and Isle of Wight FRS merged on 1 April 2021 to form a Combined Fire and Rescue Authority called Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority. Resource reserves held by Hampshire FRA as at March 2020 are included in the summary table. It would not be until March 2022 that the reserve figures for HIWFRA would be included in the summary table. ↩

  2. The figure of £3.6m that appears as Merseyside FRA’s ‘capital reserves’ is the fund for the National Resilience Assurance Team (NRAT) asset refresh which MRFA is holding on behalf of the Home Office. ↩

  3. Northamptonshire FRA was established on 1 January 2019 when responsibility for the governance of fire and rescue transferred from Northamptonshire County Council to the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner. ↩

  4. The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was abolished on 1 April 2018, and the first London Fire Commissioner (LFC) was appointed. The LFC is a functional body of the Greater London Authority and its budget is set by the Mayor. Separate core spending power numbers of reserves figures for the LFC are therefore not available. ↩

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