FOI 00306 - North Wales Branch Sec Expenses

Request:

Received: 5 January 2023

As a paying member of the PFEW can I respectfully request the following information under the freedom of information act.

With regards to expenses claims submitted by Mark Jones the Federation Branch Secretary of North Wales Police can you please give me a full list of his expenses claims since the start of 2018 until the present day.

Can you also please give me costs associated with any external meeting or trip Mark Jones has attended NOT in the North Wales Police area that has been paid for out of the PFEW budget for example a trip he has made for fed business whereby a hotel room has been paid for in advance from the PFEW budget.

Can you also tell me the current additional monthly payment (Uplift) a branch secretary receives for carrying out their role? Mark Jones is a Sergeant so how much is he paid above and beyond this salary?

Response:

Responded: 19 January 2023

QUESTION:

RESPONSE:

The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) confirms that it does hold this information.

Row Labels	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Accommodation (Statutory Events)			1,808.44	1,759.06	2,818.98
Bank charges and commission		45.00
Branch Welfare		88.68	197.69	1,062.60	2,043.96
Consumables		13.98		88.17	113.23
FUEL FOR PFEW MOTOR V		519.76
Gifts & Presentations		455.12	10.00	280.89	264.24
Hardware		45.82	37.98	215.89
Hospitality Costs		278.04	49.30	33.43	280.79
IT Consumables			45.00	267.37	365.27
Mileage	95.40				26.10
Overnight Incident Allowance	60.00	105.00	30.00	60.00	150.00
Parking	26.80	70.29	52.20	32.30	146.89
Postage & Courier			34.92	21.90
Professional membership fees				147.00
Publications		31.60
Repairs & Maintenance		26.38	126.86	423.65	329.99
Staff Other		1,100.02		616.96	184.70
Staff welfare		190.26	372.34	167.03
Stationery		74.27	23.96	42.92	16.89
Subsistence/ Refreshments	90.82	3,422.40	185.45	840.32	1,832.05
Tolls		49.30	13.40	13.90	21.30
Travel - Air		243.35	40.67		177.92
Travel - Rental Car	12.80		87.50		157.12
Travel - Taxi	7.00	57.50		93.20	392.96
Travel - Train		2,094.00	221.60	1,328.32	688.29

QUESTION:

RESPONSE:

PFEW does not record expense claims by location so is unable to provide this information.

QUESTION:

RESPONSE:

PFEW confirms that it does hold this information but is exempting it under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Data reasonably accessible by other means). For ease, the following link should provide you with the information:

https://www.polfed.org/media/17938/pfew-rules-2021-v2.pdf

The required page is 134.