Lobbying for climate action & funding
Dear Vale of White Horse District Council,
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.
I would like information about your council’s lobbying work in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following question:
Has the council written to or met with UK national or devolved governments to ask or lobby for climate action since 1st January 2019? Please provide some evidence of the most recent letter or meeting such as a copy of the letter or email sent, or the date, topic of meeting and position of the person that the meeting was held with.
This includes either asking for more powers and funding for local authorities to take climate action, or asking for the government to take further action themselves. This includes working with other local authorities to send joint letters or meetings to lobby UK or devolved governments, and includes both general climate action and calls for action on specific issues such as transport where climate change is mentioned as a motivating factor for taking action.
This includes if a cabinet member or other councillor has written to or met with the UK or devolved governments on behalf of the council.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
Dear Hannah Jewell
Thank you for your Environmental Information Regulation request, which was
received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 16 January 2023
Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been
received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a
response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the
information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.
The deadline for this will be 13 February 2023
The reference number for this request is Vale 22/1135
I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is
being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime,
please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at
[1][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
Kind regards
Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Vale of White Horse District Council
[2]www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk
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Abbey House
Abbey Close
Abingdon
OX14 3JE
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[3]Vale of White Horse District Council
Dear Hannah Jewell
Thank you for your requests for information under the Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), which were received by both South
Oxfordshire District Council (logged under 22/1239 SOUTH) and Vale of
White Horse District Council (logged under 22/1135 VALE). Please note
that the two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint
response.
Under Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations
2004, you are entitled to information which is in the authority’s
possession or is held by another person on behalf of the authority unless
any exceptions apply (Part 3 Regulation 12). I have considered your
request and can confirm we do hold some of the information asked and I do
not believe any of the statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please
find below the information you requested (where available):
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information
Regulations request.
I would like information about your council’s lobbying work in relation to
climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
question:
Has the council written to or met with UK national or devolved governments
to ask or lobby for climate action since 1st January 2019?
Please provide some evidence of the most recent letter or meeting such as
a copy of the letter or email sent, or the date, topic of meeting and
position of the person that the meeting was held with.
This includes either asking for more powers and funding for local
authorities to take climate action, or asking for the government to take
further action themselves. This includes working with other local
authorities to send joint letters or meetings to lobby UK or devolved
governments, and includes both general climate action and calls for action
on specific issues such as transport where climate change is mentioned as
a motivating factor for taking action.
This includes if a cabinet member or other councillor has written to or
met with the UK or devolved governments on behalf of the council.
Both South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District
Council publish their official communications, including those which may
relate to climate actions. [1]Here is a list of South Oxfordshire
District Councils official correspondence , for example see entry 23 May
2022 regarding retrofitting, and [2]Here is a list of Vale of White Horse
District Council official correspondence for example see entry 8 February
2022.
In addition, plans and reports setting out the approach for each council
can be found on our websites:
• [3]South Oxfordshire District Council, tackling the climate emergency
and [4]what we are doing
• [5]Vale of White Horse District Council, action on climate and nature
also [6]what we are doing to help tackle climate change.
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response to your Environmental
Information Regulation request. If you are not satisfied with the
response we have provided to your request, under Environmental Information
Regulation 11, you may make a request for an internal review within 40
working days of receiving this response by emailing
[7][email address] and [8][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]. If you remain
dissatisfied after following that procedure, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner. You can contact the Commissioner
at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone
number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information at
[9]www.ico.org.uk.
Kind Regards
Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
01235 422400
[10]www.southoxon.gov.uk
[11]www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk
We’ve moved – our address is now:
Abbey House
Abbey Close
Abingdon
OX14 3JE
Please update your records.
To find out more about how the councils hold, use and store your personal
data, please click on the appropriate link:
[12]South Oxfordshire District Council [13]Vale of White Horse District
Council
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