Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) business travel: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
Information requested
Firstly, we are interested in Public Bodies’ targets for business travel:
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).
Secondly, we are interested in Public Bodies’ corporate travel policies and plans:
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.
Finally, we are specifically interested in Public Bodies’ use of rail and air for domestic travel:
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
Firstly, we are interested in Public Bodies’ targets for business travel:
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).
No, SAAS does not currently have a target for cutting emissions from air and/or business travel.
Secondly, we are interested in Public Bodies’ corporate travel policies and plans:
2. Please provide copies of any corporate policy your organisation has on the reduction of emissions from business travel.
SAAS do not currently have a corporate policy on the reduction of emissions from business travel. However the agency Climate Action Plan recommends that SAAS measure and report on our emissions from Business travel. A copy of the Climate Action Plan is attached as above.
3. Please provide copies of any corporate policy your organisation has on the reduction of the use of air travel for business travel purposes.
SAAS do not currently have a corporate policy on the reduction of the use of air travel for business purposes. For exceptional cases where air travel is required core Scottish Government Policies would be followed. The SAAS Climate Action Plan does not refer specifically to air travel.
Finally, we are specifically interested in Public Bodies’ use of rail and air for domestic travel:
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.
The number of flights our staff have taken during this period is zero.
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. The number of rail journeys our staff have taken is one rail journey from Edinburgh to London.
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