Information regarding First Minister flights: FOI release
- Published
- 6 February 2023
- Directorate
- Directorate for Corporate Transformation
- Topic
- Public sector, Scottish Budget
- FOI reference
- FOI/202200323670
- Date received
- 6 October 2022
- Date responded
- 13 October 2022
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
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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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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