Dear Mark Williams

Thank you for your Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulation request, which was received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 30 November 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 3 January 2024

The reference number for this request is Vale 23/802

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 [Vale of White Horse District Council request email]

Kind regards

Information Governance Team

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Dear Mark,

Thank you for your request for information under the Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), which was logged under 23/802 VALE and
passed to me to respond accordingly.

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):

I see you are signed up to [1]https://www.uk100.org/membershipUK100.

1. who voted for this? Vale of White Horse District Council agreed to
become a member of the UK100 network following a motion at the Council
meeting on 6 October 2021.

2. where have you published that you have signed up for this? A search on
the VOWHDC website for 'UK100' has no results. The minutes from the 6
October 2021 Council meeting are available [2]here. A [3]press release was
then published about the decision and [4]a second press release was
published when the leader of the council signed with UK100 net zero
pledge.

3. what are your plans in full to meet your pledge to UK100? Vale of White
Horse District Council’s intended action on climate change is set out in
our [5]Climate Action Plan 2022-2024. 

4. How much is this costing? Many of the actions relate to core council
activities and therefore are part of the existing council budgets.  

5. How is this funded? Many of the actions relate to core council
activities and therefore are funded by existing council budgets.

6. What proof are you using to make any claims there is man made climate
change? Vale of White Horse District Council’s commitment to addressing
the climate emergency is set out in our [6]Corporate Plan 2022-2024.

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][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 [8]www.ico.org.uk.

Best wishes,

Jessie

Jessie Fieth

Senior Climate Action Officer

Climate and Biodiversity Team

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils

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7. mailto:[Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
8. http://www.ico.org.uk/