Visit to Stuttgart - St Helens Council

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Please find below the information you have requested: 

a) Total number of delegates 

 32

b) Name of delegate and position (eg David Baines, Council Leader) and any
guests that attended with them and their relationship to them (eg
companion, spouse etc)

Council Party 
Cllr Lynn Clarke - Mayor of St Helens (Head of Delegation)
Cllr David Baines - Leader of the Council, St Helens (Head of Delegation)
Cllr Martin Bond - Cabinet Member for Corporate Services, Council of St
Helens
Cllr Andy Bowden - Cabinet Member for Environmental Services & Climate
Change, Council of St Helens
Cllr Anthony Burns - Cabinet Member for Wellbeing, Culture and Heritage,
Council of St Helens
Cllr Nova Charlton - Cabinet Member for Children & Young People, Council
of St Helens
Cllr Seve Gomez Aspron - Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member
for Strategic Transport, Council of St Helens
Cllr Kate Groucutt - Cabinet Member for Economy, Business and Skills,
Council of St Helens
Cllr Richard McCauley - Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Planning,
Council of St Helens
Cllr Marlene Quinn - Cabinet Member for Integrated Health & Care, Council
of St Helens
Cllr Mancyia Uddin - Cabinet Member for Safer Communities, Council of St
Helens
Yasmin Gowing - Youth Council of St Helens
Anna Gocevska - Youth Council of St Helens
Steven Paul Blackhurst - Youth Council of St Helens Chaperone
Mark Palethorpe - Executive Director, Peoples Services Department of St
Helens
Hannah Myers - Assistant Director, Policy and Transformation Department,
St Helens
Cameron Sheeran - Principal, Cowley International College, St Helens
Christopher Lloyd - Break Dance Artist, UC Crew, St Helens
Ste Lingard - Chairman, St Helens Town FC

Band Members 
Mia Hurst – Band Member
Charlotte Pennington – Band Member
Amy Hurst – Band Member
Ela Robinson – Band Member
Callum Yates – Band Member
Tom Reed – Band Member
Jeremy Sleith - Band Chaperone
Nicola Skrzypczak – Band Chaperone

School Delegation
Macca Smith – Cowley College Student
Jake Dawson – Cowley College Sudent
Eve Kelly – Cowley College Student
Susan Kay – Cowley College Student Chaperone
Karen Mitchell – Cowley College Student Chaperone

c) Cost per person.

 
The cost to the Council for this three-day visit was £1,544.49. This
equated to the travel costs of three people. The full costs of the visit
are not known as this was met by our hosts Stuttgart. If you divide the
£1,554.49 by the 32 delegates in the party this equates to £48.57 per
delegate. Stuttgart have not shared the cost to them of hosting the visit
with the Council. 

d) Whether the cost was self-funded, partly funded via contribution or
entirely from the public purse.

 
The majority of the costs associated with the visit were met by our hosts
Stuttgart however, the costs of incidental drinks, snack and souvenirs if
not met by Stuttgart were not funded by the Council and personally funded
by the party members. We do not have a breakdown of the personal spend. 

 
e) Please include members of St Helens Youth Council and detail as above.

 
Please refer to the full delegate list at: b)

f) Please advise if any contribution by St Helens Council was granted to
other groups that attended (eg Young Musicians from St Helens) if so
number in group and amount granted.

Please refer to the response to (b) and (c)

 
g) Clarification of ‘Stuttgart partners kindly pay for most of St Helens
group’s expenses’ – the total figure Stuttgart paid toward the costs and a
breakdown of how these were distributed between said groups.

 
The Council took a party of 32 people to Stuttgart as listed at (b) the
only costs incurred by the Council for this visit are detailed at (c) and
equated to £1,544.49. All most all of the costs associated with the visit
were met by our hosts Stuttgart however, the costs of incidental drinks,
snack and souvenirs if not met by Stuttgart were not funded by the Council
and personally funded by the party members.

I trust this provides a full answer to the questions you have asked in
your freedom of information request which will now be closed. 

Form Submission

Hello Wendy Hill,

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