Foreign travel expenses of Clinical Director of NHS Scotland

Information requested

You asked for the following information: 

how much the Clinical Director of NHS Scotland (Professor Jason Leitch) has spent on U.K. and foreign expenses travel (including taxi, train, flights, hotels, meals and subsistence) during the period April 2015-April 2022, and 

how many working days he spent at U.K. and international conferences and meetings during the same period? 

Response

Over the period April 2015 to April 2022 the National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch has incurred expenses relating to UK and international travel totalling a cost of £13,503.73. Over the same period, Jason Leitch has attended in-person UK and International conferences and meetings in a Scottish Government capacity totalling to 253 working days. A breakdown of costs and working days per financial years are set out below. 

Period	Total costs	Total duration of visits (working days)
01 April 2015 to 31 March 2016	£7,110.77	63.5
01 April 2016 to 31 March 2017	£1,447.33	58.5
01 April 2017 to 31 March 2018	£1,082.74	33.5
01 April 2018 to 31 March 2019	£957.12	45
01 April 2019 to 31 March 2020	£1,866.04	33.5
01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021	N/A	N/A
01 April 2021 to 31 March 2022	£955.33	17
01 April 2022 to 30th April 2022	£84.40	2
Total	£13,503.73	253.0

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