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    • FOI request (FOIR-421153159)

      Overseas Travel

      Requested Tue 10 May 2022
      Responded Wed 20 July 2022

      This is an information request relating to overseas travel by councillors or council officials.

      Please include the information for each of the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22.

      1. The total annual spend by the council on overseas travel.

      2. A breakdown of expenditure on overseas travel. Please include:

      a. Destination

      b. Length of trip

      c. Number of officials involved

      d. The name and address of the hotel(s) booked

      e. The flights booked, including which class

      f. Purpose of trip

      g. Expenses for food, drink, taxis (please, where possible, provide receipts)

      h. Please make clear whether a trip was fully funded by the council, only part funded, or was fully funded by an external body. If funded by an external body, please make clear which body.


      Response

      Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

      Please include the information for each of the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22.

      2019

      Workshop B on 'Intermodality for Visitors at Tourist Destinations', Bremerhaven, Germany

      Fully funded by DESTI SMART ERDF EU programme x 1 person

      Hotel Haverkamp - €220.40

      Train ticket Bremerhaven Hamburg Airport - conference DB £38.42

      Train £24 - to Gatwick

      easyJet flights - £102.36 London Gatwick to Hamburg

      £20 on refreshments

      2020

      To attend tourism consumer shows to promote 1066 Country Vakantiebeurs Exhibition (part funded by 1066 Country Marketing

      Travel free - due to complimentary travel by Eurostar

      Utrecht Hotel Mary K, 5 nights - £583.25

      Travel - £143.53

      Subsistence - £121.05

      2020

      Salon des Vacances (part funded by 1066 Country Marketing Partnership, a private/public sector organisation

      Travel free - due to complimentary travel by Eurostar

      Brussels Hotel Ibis (1 night) - £152.31, Hygge Hotel (3 nights) - £327.68

      Travel - £53.30

      Subsistence and metros - £110

      No trips taken in 2021/22

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