Education Scotland foreign trip expenditure: FOI release

Information requested

How much Education Scotland has spent on foreign trips (visits outside of Scotland) in each of the last five financial years.

Information should include: the number of staff on each trip, the location, the reason for the trip, and the total cost of each trip.

Response

Please see the table below which provides you with the information you have requested. Further details have been provided in the attached spreadsheet at Annex A.

Financial Year	Number of staff journeys undertaken	Location	Reason for Foreign Travel	Foreign Travel costs
2019-20	78	various	various	£29,351.46
2020-21	0	N/A	N/A	£0
2021-22	18	various	various	£4,129.92
2022-23	62	various	various	£21,486.17
2023-24 *	48	various	various	£19,574.01

Please note that no foreign travel was undertaken during financial year 2020-21.

* This includes the data available at this stage and covers travel up to the end of November 2023.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Education Scotland does not have some of the information you have requested, the reasons for travel in 2019-20 is not available.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Education Scotland does not have that information you have requested.

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FOI 202400400521 - Information released - Annex A

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