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Dear Worcester City Council,

Please treat this email as a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I am seeking information concerning:

The total amount of money spent on a) tea & coffee, b) biscuits and cake, c) sandwiches at council meetings (both main meetings and sub-committees) in the following years?
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018 (figures up to September)

What brands/types of biscuits and cake were supplied?

What brands/types of tea and coffee were supplied?

What brands/types of sandwiches were supplied?

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.

Yours faithfully,

Saeed Hussain

FOI, Worcester City Council

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Dear Saeed Hussain,

 

Thank you for your below Freedom of Information request sent to Worcester
City Council.

 

Response:

1.   The total amount of money spent on:

a)  tea & coffee,

b)  biscuits and cake,

c)   sandwiches at council meetings (both main meetings and
sub-committees) in the following years?

·         2008

·         2009

·         2010

·         2011

·         2012

·         2013

·         2014

·         2015

·         2016

·         2017

·         2018 (figures up to September)

 

Please see the attached csv file.

 

Worcester City Council does not hold the information you have requested
before the year 2010. The council also does not hold the information you
have requested for 2018/19 as costs were recorded within a wider
associated budget related to the running of the Guildhall where members
meetings are held.

 

2.   What brands/types of biscuits and cake were supplied?

Worcester City Council does not hold this information.

 

3.   What brands/types of tea and coffee were supplied?

Worcester City Council does not hold this information.

 

4.   What brands/types of sandwiches were supplied?

Worcester City Council does not hold this information.

 

The attached dataset is supplied to you and can be re-used in accordance
with the Open Government Licence (OGL).

 

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The Monitoring Officer

Worcester City Council

The Guildhall

High Street

Worcester

WR1 2EY

 

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Yours sincerely,

Anna Troughton

 

Corporate Policy and Strategy Team
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