Demographic makeup of the Fire Brigade’s workforce
Case reference FOI2026/00001
Received 2 January 2026
Published 30 January 2026
Request
I am looking for the population numbers of 2026, or the latest available year, such as:
1) Racial groups as the UK govt. classifies: White - British (English, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish) White - Irish Asian - Indian Asian - Pakistani Asian - Bangladeshi Asian - Chinese ...and the other non-national ethnic groups (like Africans, Arabs, other Asian, other White, Caribbean, Mixed race, etc.)
2) Religious identities, in particular the number of: ✝️ Christians † ☪️ Muslims ☪︎ ️ Hindus ॐ Sikhs ☬ ☸️ Buddhists ☸︎ ✡️ Jews ✡︎ ...non-religious & other religion populations.
3) The total number of employees working for the brigade, the percentage share of genders & the % percentage of staff that have British citizenship?
4) What percentage of staff live in Greater London (the 32 London Boroughs & the City of London) & from outside London? 5) What % percentage of the workforce have GCSE, A-Level & Degree-level qualifications? 6) the number of staff members who can speak the World's 10-most spoken languages (besides English) if that is recorded by chance, namely: Chinese (漢語) Hindi (हिन्दी) Spanish French Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ) Bengali (বাংলা) Russian (русский) Portuguese Urdu (اُرْدُوِ)
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