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