FOI 01107 – Campaign spend – website and events
Response issued: 24/10/19
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Dear [name redacted]
Your request – Campaign spend – website and events
Thank you for your request for information (below). We have considered your enquiry as a formal request under access to information legislation. This legislation requires RWM, as a public organisation, to disclose information that we hold unless it is not in the public interest to do so or if it is covered by exemptions within the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) or other relevant legislation. —————————— ##Your request I see from the data you provided that £49,224 was allocated to website development. Please could you direct me to this website?
In addition, I noticed you spent £77,026 on events. Please can you provide me a list of the events that you have attended and are planning to attend from March 2019 - present? ————————————-
Our response
I see from the data you provided that £49,224 was allocated to website development. Please could you direct me to this website?
This money (£49,224) was spent on our new Working Group website which will contain a Working Group Portal. The Working Group Portal is for interested parties. It contains communications guidance and templates that enable interested parties to launch public facing working groups, including establishing their own digital channels such as a website. Working Groups will be the initial community groups established to explore if siting a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in their area is right for them. As such, the Working Group Portal as part of this site will only ‘go live’ when working groups are established – currently no Working Groups have formed. This site therefore has not yet gone live so we are unable to direct you to view the site. The site is intended for use by members of Working Groups as they enter the siting process and, with the exception of the homepage, members of the public will not be able to access this unless they are a member of a Working Group.
In addition, I noticed you spent £77,026 on events. Please can you provide me a list of the events
that you have attended and are planning to attend from March 2019 – present
The £77,026 was spent on designing, building, storing and transporting a new portable exhibition which RWM uses across a range of exhibitions and roadshows. It also includes stands at national exhibitions. To date these have included:
a) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Stakeholder Summit b) Trade Union Congress annual conference c) Three NDA ‘Site Stakeholder Group’ Roadshows d) As part of this expenditure we will also attend the County Councils Network conference / exhibition between 17-19 November 2019 e) We have also attended the Prospect Energy Conference and Local Government Association National Conference over the Summer.
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