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FOI - Foreign travel costs [Sep 2025]

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Request reference number: MGLA170725-0271

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Summary of request

Your request

I am seeking information on the Mayor of London’s recent travel, including his trip to Africa (underway at the time of sending).

  1. Please could you provide a breakdown of each flight - domestic and international - taken by the Mayor from January 1 2024 to his return from his five-day Africa trip currently taking place in July 2025.
  2. Please include details of the destination, how many staff accompanied him, mode and class of travel (e.g. commercial flight, business class), total cost of the flights, total cost of the trip (including hotels), and the reason for each visit.

Our response

Please see the attached table for information relating to visits undertaken from January 2024 to July 2025.

Please note that the costs provided do not reflect any expense claims or repayments made by individual staff members following the conclusion of the visit.

If costs are covered by other parties, these costs will be declared in the usual way in accordance with the GLA’s gifts and hospitality policy, which can be found at: Our procedures | London City Hall

Please note the GLA is currently calculating the costs of the Mayor’s visit to Africa in July 2025.  *This page will be updated once finalised.

Destination Year Staff Mode of transport Class of Transport Reason Total cost of all flights Total cost of trip to the GLA including all flights
Rome 2024 4 Plane Economy As Mayor of London and Chair of C40 Cities led a delegation of city leaders to participate in the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ ‘Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience’ summit’ £1,870.47

£4301.73

New York 2024 8 Plane Business To participate in events in NYC during the United Nations General Assembly Travel provided by C40 Cities to Mayor as co-Chair of C40 Cities. Costs declared in the usual way in accordance with the GLA’s gifts and hospitality policy, which can be found at: Our procedures | London City Hall

£13877.16

Poland 2025 4 Plane Economy Official invitation to attend the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. £1271.35 £2,703.13
Cannes 2025 9 Plane Economy Led GLA delegation to MIPIM, the world’s leading real estate conference, to officially launched the new Opportunity London prospectus seeking a record level £22bn of investment to build more affordable homes for Londoners and unlock new infrastructure and jobs in the capital.  Travel provided by Opportunity London and declared in the usual way in accordance with the GLA’s gifts and hospitality policy, which can be found at: Our procedures | London City Hall £7,737.41
Africa 2025     * * * *

 

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