Over the course of financial year 2023-2024 how much did your authority spend on attending conferences? Which conferences did you fund for people to attend? What are the job titles of people who attended conferences?
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We do not consistently capture the name of the event being attended or the job title of the person attending and with 81 lines of transactions making up this account, it would take at least 20 mins to look at each line to determine which conference was attended and who attended it which is 1620 minutes (27 hours) and over the 18 hours of officer time.
In the interests of providing advice and assistance, the Council can provide the following information: the total spend on Conference and Seminar Fees for 23/24 was £36,289,37.