Dear Hannah Jewell,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your two identical requests for information of 16 January 2023.

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places under two different names - http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal entity. Its full, official name is 'The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. We have informed the WDTK website that it is maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA, which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority').

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the "Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Hannah Jewell,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Following your request of 16^th January 2023 and our acknowledgement of
the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows:

 A. Have all senior management received carbon literacy training or
equivalent since 1st January 2019? Please state the type of training.

An external organisation provided a training workshop for members and
officers on whole-life carbon in June 2021. This was made available to all
senior management and staff via a recorded presentation and a series of
training resources.

 B. Have all current councillors in the cabinet or committee chairs
received carbon literacy training or equivalent since being elected? 
Please state the type of training.

An external organisation provided a training workshop for members and
officers on whole-life carbon in June 2021. This was made available to all
members via a recorded presentation and series of training resources.

Further details on our climate action strategy can be found here
[1]Climate Action Strategy - City of London.

We hope that this response is of assistance.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[2][email address] For a link to the CoL’s FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.  Website: [4]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority; and to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(GSMD), which it manages. Subject to any other statutory provisions
requiring the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside
the scope of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1243

[5]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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