Education Scotland - business travel: FOI release

Information requested

The following information from Education Scotland.

1. Do you have a target to cut emissions from air and/or business travel? If so, please share information about any target(s) you have (e.g. description of the target, when the target was adopted, timeline to meeting the target).
2. Please provide copies of any corporate policy your organisation has on the reduction of emissions from business travel.
3. Please provide copies of any corporate policy your organisation has on the reduction of the use of air travel for business travel purposes.
4. Please provide details of the number of flights your staff have taken from Edinburgh & Glasgow Airports to London Airports for business purposes in the past 12 months (or your most recent 12 month reporting period) for travel to destinations within south-east England.
5. Please provide details of the number of rail journeys your staff have taken from Edinburgh & Glasgow railway stations to London railway stations for business purposes in the past 12 months (or your most recent 12 month reporting period) for travel to destinations within south-east England.

Response

1. Education Scotland presently doesn’t have targets for the reduction in emissions and we are working on promoting greener initiatives in the way we travel. Education Scotland continues to take part in the Scottish Government’s Carbon Emissions Scheme whereby a mandatory £1 levy is charged when a hire car is booked for official business. The levy is returned to the Scottish Government’s carbon levy pot for donation to environmental causes.
2. Education Scotland follows the Scottish Government’s policies on travel as far as possible and we don’t have a separate corporate policy.
3. Education Scotland follows the Scottish Government’s policies on the use of travel as far as possible and we don’t have a separate corporate policy.
4. 7 flights.
5. 27 rail journeys.

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