FOI Request - Christmas Lights Expenditure

Request 101003662178

1.  The annual spend on Christmas lights per year, for the following years:

•    2023
•    2024 (estimated)

2.  The annual spend on Christmas decorations (e.g. trees), for the following years:

•    2023
•    2024 (estimated)

3.  Have you re-used Christmas Decorations / Lights from a previous year

Yes
No

4.  The amount spent by the council on celebrities to turn on Christmas Lights

• In 2023
• In 2024 (predicted)

5.  Name of celebrity who turned on Christmas lights for the Council

• In 2023
• In 2024 (predicted)

For the purpose of this FOI, a celebrity is not the local mayor or MP.  Anyone who has appeared on television, reality television, it is people in the media. Athletes, authors, etc.

Response 20-11-2024

1.-5. Not held. The Christmas Lights held throughout Moray are run by voluntary organisations and not the Council. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.