Online Streaming Services - Find a freedom of information request

During the pandemic many councils moved to online streaming or uploading of meetings, and we would like to find out the impact of online services over the past few years.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide in a written answer the following for the past five financial years (2016-21):

1. Primary online channel name and link

2. Service used for streaming (YouTube/Facebook/Zoom etc.)

3. Date the authority began streaming/recording its meetings and uploading them online

4. Total spend on facilitating/carrying out online meetings

5. Will the online/streaming service continue post pandemic?

Please list all above broken down by year.

Following this could you also please fill in the attached spreadsheet with the data requested within.

If you were not streaming at the time/dates requested, please fill in the relevant fields with a "0" and continue to fill in the rest of the fields relevant for physical meetings

1. Lincolnshire County Council’s channel is called - 'LincolnshireCC'; the link is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkiCNJxCG616P8iXpZdQqRg

2. See question 1.

3. Thursday 30 April 2020.

4. Lincolnshire County Council does not have a specific cost code relating to this information; therefore, the information is not held by the Council.

5. Lincolnshire County Council will review the position at the appropriate time.