Bill Cullen MBA (ISM), BA(Hons) MRTPI
Chief Executive
Please Ask For: Faye Biddles
Dial:
01455 238141
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Our Ref:
FOI/5047
Date:
10 August 2018
De
ar Jenna,
Thank you for your request for the following information:
“
From June 2016 to the day this request is processed, I would like to know the number of overseas trips
councillors, members of the management team (including the chief executive), and council officers have
taken in the course of conducting council business. For each overseas trip, please provide the following
information:
- The date and duration of the overseas trip, as well as the country/city that was visited
- The full name, title and position of the councillor/member of management team/council officer who
went on the overseas trip
- The reason or reasons why the councillor/member of management team/council officer went on the
overseas trip
- The cost of the overseas trip (please provide a breakdown of travel costs, accommodation costs and
expenses etc.)
- Please state whether the council met the costs of the overseas trip, or whether an individual, group,
company, consortium, charity or another organisation met the costs.
- Please provide the full name of the individual, group, company, charity or organisation that met the
costs. If it is a group or consortium, please state who or what composes the group or consortium.”
Your request has been processed under the Freedom of Information 2000. Our response as follows. In
all cases, the only available information is cost to the Council (other costs were met by our host)
Date, duration, location: 17 June 2016; 3 nights; Grand Quevilly, France
Attendee(s): Councillor Richard Allen (Mayor); Councillor Miriam Surtees
Reason: Bakayades (town twinning meeting and event)
Cost: Flights: £391.34
Date, duration, location: 6 February 2017; 2 nights; Herford, Germany
Attendee(s): Councillor Richard Allen (Mayor)
Reason: 100th Birthday celebration of town hall in our twin town of Herford
Cost: Flights and airport parking: 165.29
Date, duration, location: 8 September 2017; 3 nights; Grand Quevilly, France
Attendee(s): Councillor Ozzy O’Shea (Mayor); Mrs Jenny O’Shea (Mayoress); Rebecca Owen
(Democratic Services Officer)
Reason: Bakayades (town twinning meeting and event)
Cost: Flights: 383.89; Airport Parking: £56.99
Date, duration, location: 8 June 2018; 3 nights; Grand Quevilly, France
Hinckley Hub • Rugby Road • Hinckley • Leicestershire • LE10 0FR
Telephone 01455 238141 • MDX No 716429 • Fax 01455 251172 • www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk
Attendee(s): Councillor Jan Kirby (Mayor); Mr Mike Kirby (Mayor’s Consort); Rebecca Ball (Children &
Young People’s Co-ordinator)
Reason: Bakayades (town twinning meeting and event)
Cost: Flights: £771.01
Please note that you are free to use the information supplied to you by the Act for your own personal
purposes or non-commercial research, Private Study or news reporting. However, by making copies,
publishing or distributing the information without the consent of the holder, which in most cases will be
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, you may be infringing copyright.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may write to: Julie Kenny, Director of
Corporate Services, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, Hinckley Hub, Rugby Road, Hinckley,
Leicestershire, LE10 0FR. Please quote your reference number on all correspondence and ask that
your request be reviewed under the council’s internal appeals procedure.
Should you remain dissatisfied following an appeal, you may write to the Information Commissioner for
a further review at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Kind regards
Faye Biddles
Information Governance Officer
Hinckley Hub • Rugby Road • Hinckley • Leicestershire • LE10 0FR
Telephone 01455 238141 • MDX No 716429 • Fax 01455 251172 • www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk
