City Council Overseas Trips
Dear Lincoln City Council,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and relates to overseas trips.
From 01 January 2016 to the day this request is processed, I would like to know the number of overseas trips council officials have taken in the course of conducting council business.
For each overseas trip, please provide the following information:
- The date and duration of the overseas trip, as well as the country/city that was visited
- The full name, title and position of the council official who went on the overseas trip
- The reason or reasons why the council official went on the overseas trip
- The cost of the overseas trip (please provide a breakdown of travel costs, accommodation costs and expenses)
- Please state whether the council met the costs of the overseas trip, or whether an individual, group, company, consortium, charity or another organisation met the costs.
- Please provide the full name of the individual, group, company, charity or organisation that met the costs. If it is a group or consortium, please state who or what composes the group or consortium.
I would like to receive the information electronically. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad or too vague, I would be grateful if you could contact me and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Jenna Corderoy
Dear Ms Corderoy,
I refer to your request for information received on 11-07-17 in relation
to the above.
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Dear Ms ,
I refer to your request for information received on 14:16:17 01 Aug 2017
concerning the above and enclose the information requested.
Dates/duration : 06.04.16 - 09.04.16
To : Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany
Those attending : Councillor Andy Kerry - Mayor of Lincoln
Ms. Sharon Longthorne - Mayoress
Kate Fenn - Civic & International Partnerships Manager
Reason : Civic invitation from Lincoln's twin city, to discuss cultural
exchanges with schools and university/tourism and future individual
twinning groups.
Cost : Flights - £599.84 (total) paid for by City of Lincoln Council
Accommodation - paid for by Neustadt City Council
Dates/duration : 27.04.16 - 01.05.16
To : Tangshan, China
Those attending : Councillor Andy Kerry - Mayor of Lincoln
John Latham - Director of Planning & Environmental Services
Kate Fenn - Civic & International Partnerships Manager
Reason : Civic invitation from Lincoln's twin city, to open the 'Lincoln
Garden' as part of large commemorative event regarding Tangshan's
earthquake in 1976.
Cost : All paid for by Tangshan Council
Dates/duration : 20.02.17 - 28.02.17
To : Port Lincoln, Australia
Those attending : Councllor Yvonne Bodger- Mayor of Lincoln
Kate Fenn - Civic & International Partnerships Manager
Reason : Invitation from Lincoln's twin city, for the Mayor of Lincoln to
unveil statue of Matthew Flinders (Navigator from Lincs UK who discovered
Port Lincoln, Australia) with the Mayor of Port Lincoln and Civic
dignitaries.
Cost : Mayor's flight and accommodation paid for by Port Lincoln.
Kate Fenn's flight and accommodation = £1,124.04
Dates/duration : 22.04.17 - 25.04.17
To : Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany
Those attending : Councillor Yvonne Bodger - Mayor of Lincoln
Mr. Gerry Gladwell, Mayor's Consort
Kate Fenn - Civic & International Partnerships Manager
Reason : Civic invitation from Lincoln's twin city, to meet
Oberburgermeister before his retirement this year and discuss twinning in
general.
Cost : Flights - £635.92 (total)
Accommodation - paid for by Neustadt City Council
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contact the Freedom of Information Officer at the City of Lincoln Council,
City Hall, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, LN1 1DB. Telephone 01522 873441 or
e-mail [1][Lincoln City Council request email]
Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner
at:
Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF Telephone: 01625 545 700 www.ico.org.uk
With regards,
Legal Services
T 01522 873840
City of Lincoln Council - Legal Services
City Hall, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, LN1 1DE
====================================================================================================================
City of Lincoln Council is a Living Wage employer. If you would like to
know more about the Living Wage, or sign up to the Making Lincoln Living
Wage campaign, please visit [2]www.lincolnagainstpoverty.co.uk/livingwage
This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may
contain sensitive or classified material up to OFFICIAL and should be
handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to
receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it
to anyone else. Please also notify the sender immediately
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000
the contents of this email may be disclosed.
The City of Lincoln Council reserves the right to monitor both sent and
received emails.
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