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Dear Colleges Scotland,

Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, please provide me with the following information:

Since 2010/11 until present date, on year, please provide breakdown of all costs associated with the following:

1. Staff Conferences held (including hiring of transport, hiring of venue, food and drink)

2. Internal Staff Conferences held in-house (including hiring of transport, food and drink, overtime payments for staff)

3. Christmas events for Staff (including prizes, hiring of venue, food and drink)

4. Cost of Christmas gifts (monetary value plus details of gifts and Christmas lunches) for all Board of Management members each year

5. Cost of Consultancy fees to provide training to Managers/Senior Managers

Please also advise which budget centres these costs were attributed to.

Yours faithfully,

Jennifer Kelly

Shona Struthers, Colleges Scotland

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Dear Ms Kelly

 

I can confirm receipt of your freedom of information request and we will
respond to you within 20 workings days.

 

Regards

 

Shona

 

 

Shona Struthers, Colleges Scotland

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Dear Ms Kelly

 

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (the “Act”) dated 23 September 2017. 
Under that request, you asked for the following information to be released
to you:

 

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|Since 2010/11 until present date, on year, please provide breakdown of |
|all costs associated with the following: |
| |
|  |
| |
|1.   Staff Conferences held (including hiring of transport, hiring of |
|venue, food and drink) |
| |
|2.   Internal Staff Conferences held in-house (including hiring of |
|transport, food and drink, overtime payments for staff) |
| |
|3.   Christmas events for Staff (including prizes, hiring of venue, food|
|and drink) |
| |
|4.   Cost of Christmas gifts (monetary value plus details of gifts and |
|Christmas lunches) for all Board of Management members each year |
| |
|5.   Cost of Consultancy fees to provide training to Managers/Senior |
|Managers |
| |
|  |
| |
|Please also advise which budget centres these costs were attributed to. |
| |
|  |
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In response to your request, please find the information outlined below:

  2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 Budget Centre
Colleges Employers' Colleges Employers' Colleges Employers'  
  Scotland Association Scotland Association Scotland Association
  £ £ £ £ £ £  
1. Staff 5150/S2/Hospitality
Conferences
Held -
External 339.70 N/A 959.26 N/A 175.50 0
 
2. Staff N/A
Conferences
Held -  
Internal 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 0
  5150/S2/Hospitality

3.
Christmas
Events for
Staff 269.64 N/A 369.40 N/A 320.00 0
   
4. Cost of  
Christmas
Gifts for N/A
Board
Members 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A  
 
5. Cost of  
Consultancy
Fees to 5000/S2/Consultants
Provide
Training to
Managers 2,160.00 N/A 0 N/A 2,712.00 0

 

Note:

·       As Colleges Scotland has only been established since 1^st August
2014, we have only provided data from that period onwards.

·       As the Employers’ Association has only established since 1^st
August 2016, we have only provided data from that period onwards.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Shona

 

 

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Hi Shona,

Thank you very much for your response.

Much appreciated

Kind regards

Jen