So, it’s that time of year again. Here are the stats for 2020/21. Overall, costs have increased by £1,872,147(not as much as 2019/20’s jump of £3.3M and Actioned Calls are down by 315(again not as much as 2019/20’s drop of 3855).
As always there are winners and losers. the biggest loser seems to be Bedfordshire. Their costs have increased year on year for the past 3 years while their Actioned Calls have gone down from 393 in 2018/19 to 188 in 2020/21.
Cheshire haven’t fared so well either. Paying $0.4M for less than half the Calls of last year, giving them a cost per call of £6050. However, Cambridgeshire top the cost per call chart at £9214.
Mind you, the cost per call that I arrive at is something of a mystery given the wide range in costs. From Cambridges’s £9214 down to Lincolnshire £1138. Especially given that talking to an NPAS pilot who said that the Forces get charged a flat rate of £2500 for a call, regardless of whether the aircraft is there for 5 minutes or an hour. Obviously other things are taken into account.
Hours flown by NPAS bases in support of Forces is up on 2019/20, 13,139 compared to 11,545. That’s largely due to the fact that I was only given 3.5 for the Met(North Weald) for 2019/20.
Anyway, make of the numbers what you will.
Oh, as for NPAS Annual Reports?? A quote from my latest FOI request:
"Please note that NPAS no longer produce an Annual Report.”
