Lobbying for climate action & funding
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council as part of a batch sent to 11 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Mid and East Antrim Borough Council,
Please treat this as an 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,
Thank you for your information request which Mid and East Antrim Borough
Council received on 16/01/2023.
This will be treated as an Environmental Information Regulations request.
Your request has been forwarded to the relevant department and I will
respond to your request as soon as possible and within the statutory
timeframe.
If you have any queries in relation to your request in the meantime please
do not hesitate to contact us quoting reference number EIR/019/2223.
Kind Regards
Freedom of Information
[1][email address]
www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk
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Dear Mid and East Antrim Borough Council ,
Thank you for taking the time to look at the FOI/EIR request I have submitted.
This is a polite reminder that the legal deadline by which you needed to respond to the FOI/EIR request was 13th February 2023, which has now passed.
I would be very grateful if you could ensure that you respond to this request as soon as you can.
All the best,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
Good afternoon,
Re: EIR/019/2223
Please find attached response on behalf of Mid and East Antrim Borough
Council.
Please quote the above reference on any related correspondence.
Best regards,
Policy Team
The Braid
1‑29 Bridge Street
Ballymena
BT43 5EJ
[1][email address]
www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
processes personal information in
compliance with the Data Protection Act
2018. To learn more, you can review our
privacy notice at
www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk/privacy-notice.
If you have received this email in error,
please contact the sender and securely
delete. You must not copy, share or take
any further action with the information
contained therein without approval. Any
opinions expressed are those of the author
and do not necessarily represent those of
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Please
consider the environment before printing.
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