FOI release

Payments received from UK 100 Cities Network Ltd

Case reference FOI2023/00617

Published 27 April 2023

Request

1) Please tell me in what way the money donations, payments or services being made by UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED, a private for profit company with a turnover in excess of £1.5 million annually, (company number 10515243) or any subsidiary company working with the UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LTD are being used and how the council arrived and approved donations or paid for services/support from this private corporation. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10515243.

2) What specific targets or goals were set, made or applied by the private 100 Cities Network Ltd (or any subsidiary) for the funding/support/services given or offered to the private unitary authority acting for Herefordshire.

3) Was such service or support or monetary exchange targeted for implementation of all or part of the Herefordshire Masterplan?

4) In what contact from was the agreement made between the two private corporation and what if any resolutions were passed to implement changes in unitary authority policy.

4B) And if so in what way was both context and information made publicly available for scrutiny or debate.

Response

1) Please tell me in what way the money donations, payments or services being made by UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED, a private for profit company with a turnover in excess of £1.5 million annually, (company number 10515243) or any subsidiary company working with the UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LTD are being used and how the council arrived and approved donations or paid for services/support from this private corporation. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10515243.

No money donations, payments or services have been received by Herefordshire Council from UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED or any subsidiary company working with the UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED.

2) What specific targets or goals were set, made or applied by the private 100 Cities Network Ltd (or any subsidiary) for the funding/support/services given or offered to the private unitary authority acting for Herefordshire.

No funding, support or services have been received from UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED or any subsidiary company working with the UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED by Herefordshire Council.

3) Was such service or support or monetary exchange targeted for implementation of all or part of the Herefordshire Masterplan?

No service or support or monetary exchange received has been received from UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED for Hereford City Masterplan.

4) In what contact from was the agreement made between the two private corporation and what if any resolutions were passed to implement changes in unitary authority policy.

There was no contact between UK 100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED and Herefordshire Council that led to a change of Council Policy or any resolutions. Herefordshire Council declared a climate emergency at the Full Council on 8 March 2019, the invite to join UK 100 was not received until May 2020.

4B) And if so in what way was both context and information made publicly available for scrutiny or debate.

Not applicable

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