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FOI request (FOIR-181113385)
Council Spending
Requested Fri 06 March 2020
Responded Fri 24 April 2020Please could you tell me how much has been spent on:
1. Ceremonial robes and props for council officials
2. Public relations (including social media)
3. Taxis taken by council officials
4. Mobile phones
5. Advertising council cuts or how the council will cope with them
Please give me the information broken down by year, for the last six years (by this I mean from 2014 and including any data you have for 2020).
If this request exceeds the cost/time threshold set out in the Freedom of Information Act, please disregard question 5.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
Response
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.
Q1 - Ceremonial Robes
2014 - £13,987.34
2015 - £2,824.13
2016 - £1,032.78
2017 - £3,183.18
2018 - £6,187.51
2019 - £2,004.53
Q2 - Public Relations
Hastings Borough Council does not have a separate account code for Public Relations (Social Media) this is incorporated within a general account code. If given the figures will not be an accurate for public relations alone.
Q3 - Taxis
2014 - £1,945.20
2015 - £1,341.60
2016 - £2,688.76
2017 - £4,162.41
2018 - £7,411.59
2019 - £15,053.37
Q4 - Mobile Phones
2014 - £20,337.48
2015 - £20,862.90
2016 - £21,610.29
2017 - £21,096.24
2018 - £19,615.57
2019 - £22,116.86
Q5 - Information not held
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