Information regarding First Minister flights: FOI release

Information requested

1) The total number of flights Nicola Sturgeon has taken since becoming First Minister in 2014, please separate these out into domestic and international flights.

2) The total cost of these flights, please separate these out into domestic and international flights.

3) The total distance of these flights, please separate these out into domestic and international flights.

4)Please provide all of the above for each calendar year.

Response

1) Nicola Sturgeon did not take any flights from the day she took office as First Minister until Feb 2015.

Calendar year	Overseas flights (No of Journeys)	Domestic flights (No of Journeys)
2014	0	0
2015	12	26
2016	11	16
2017	14	14
2018	7	20
2019	13	9
2020	2	0
2021	3	1
2022	5	21

2) Costs include tax

Calendar year	Overseas flights	Domestic flights
2014	0	0
2015	£5,549.03	£5,689.05
2016	£2,662.63	£4,506.62
2017	£10,389.76	£3,548.74
2018	£7,800.12	£5,235.63
2019	£10,069.36	£2,191.90
2020	£747.98	0
2021	£490.98	£224.79
2022	£6,182.61	£5,862.13

3)

Calendar year	Overseas flights (Miles)	Domestic flights (Miles)
2014	0	0
2015	0	0
2016	5453	5531
2017	25350	7026
2018	18016	8350
2019	14245	2530
2020	2528	0
2021	1992	635
2022	11239	7620

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The Scottish Government does not have mileage figures for flights prior to 2016 because the data provided by our travel agent at this time did not include mileage.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

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