FOI Request - Employee Travel

Request 101002223381

1. How many business miles have been travelled by council employees using their own car (greyfleet) in the last 12 months?

2. How much money has been reimbursed back to employees for those business miles for greyfleet in the last 12 months?

3. How much does the council reimburse its employees per mile?

4.  How many miles did council employees drive in the last 12 months in any type of vehicle e.g. greyfleet, council owned, car rental, car club etc.? [Refined following clarification 03-09-2019:] For question 4 please could I have information on Councillors [only], for example their use of cars going to meetings ect. I do not need information on refuse trucks, vans, JCB,s mowers ect.

5. Does the council have an employee travel policy for business travel, which may include other additional modes of transport such as train, car rental etc.?

Response 05-09-2019

1, 2. and 3.

Mileage claimed by Employees who use their own cars (Greyfleet) between 01/07/2018 and 30/06/2019

Scheme Name Total Miles Total Amount Rate Paid  
Moray Council 25% Scheme
Moray Council Disturbance P/T Scheme
Moray Council Disturbance Scheme
Moray Council Scheme
8,263.00
15,556.00
146,242.00
1,211,009.00
929.61
1,960.02
65,808.90
544,954.05
0.1125
0.126
0.45
0.45
Used own car for more than 135 mile round trip so paid 25% of AMAP Rate
Disturbance Mileage at Public Transport Rate
Disturbance Mileage at Normal AMAP Rate
Normal Mileage AMAP Rate
Grand Total 1,381,070.00 613,652.58    

4. Councillor's claimed mileage between 01/07/2018 and 30/06/2019:  40381 miles

Although the request was revised during the clarification process, the following had already been collated and may be of interest: 

Pool car mileage 2018/19 : 1,200,867 miles

In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that we do not record actual mileage for external hire cars. However, staff estimate the miles they expect to travel at booking, this mileage for 2018/19 was 254,169 miles

5. Please find a copy of our Travel and Subsistence Policy attached here.

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