Cancelled travel and accommodation
Case reference FOI2026/01820
Received 25 August 2026
Published 23 September 2026
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information for the 2025/26 financial year and 2026/27 financial year to date:
1. The total number of flights, train tickets, taxis, hotel bookings and other travel/accommodation bookings paid for by the Council which were subsequently cancelled or unused, where the Council incurred a financial cost and received no corresponding service.
2. The total cost to the Council of these cancelled or unused bookings.
Response
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please find the answers to your queries below:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information for the 2025/26 financial year and 2026/27 financial year to date:
1. The total number of flights, train tickets, taxis, hotel bookings and other travel/accommodation bookings paid for by the Council which were subsequently cancelled or unused, where the Council incurred a financial cost and received no corresponding service.
We do not hold this information.
2. The total cost to the Council of these cancelled or unused bookings.
N/A
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Guildford Borough Council
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