Overseas trips
Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and relates to overseas trips.
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.
I would like to receive the information electronically. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad or too vague, I would be grateful if you could contact me and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request. Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Jenna Corderoy
Dear Ms Corderoy
Your request for information ref. SOT70640
Thank you for your request for information about expenditure on overseas
trips between June 2016 and 29 July 2018. Your request was received by
the Information Rights Team on 30 July 2018. This is being dealt with
under the terms of the appropriate Information Rights legislation.
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Dear Ms Corderoy
Your request for information ref. SOT70640 about expenditure on overseas
trips between June 2016 and 29 July 2018
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Information Rights Team
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City of Stoke-on-Trent
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Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and
relates to overseas trips.
>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.
I would like to receive the information electronically. If you feel that a
substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable
time frame, or the request is too broad or too vague, I would be grateful
if you could contact me and provide assistance as to how I could refine
the request. Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Jenna Corderoy
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