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Dear Liverpool City Region Combined Authority,

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram (Chairman). Liverpool City Region

1. Please, can you supply all links to LFC with regards Mr Rotheram and his family with any gifts and or payments from this club LFC?

2. Why has Steve Rotherham told members of the public he will be objecting to the LFC trademark "Liverpool" then behind the public hold talks (meeting) with officers from LFC (Liverpool Football Club?

3. So, in other words, Liverpool Metro Mayor "Steve Rotheram" is backing the club, Liverpool Football Club to obtain the name "Liverpool" as a trademark" but then telling members of the public he will object to this?

4. In the past four weeks, how many meeting has Steve Rotheram held with LFC and Peter Moore in regards to the trademark "Liverpool"?

5. Please could Steve Rotheram for the record as to his and his family's involvement with LFC with getting free hospitality packages from the club ( Liverpool Football Club) or its 3rd party agents with all home games (Premier and Champions League) games towards himself, family, and close friends, has anyone in his family passed on these tickets for resale?

6. Why has the Metro Mayor "Steve Rotheram" blanked all e-mails and phone calls with regards to the trademark "Liverpool" and then behind closed doors held a moonlight meeting with the club (LFC) to take sides with the club?

7. Has the Liverpool Metro Mayor taken any payments, of gifts from LFC, its 3rd party agents to act as a consultant and side with LFC while acting as an MP and then the Metro Mayor?

8.. Would the Metro Mayor for the record be willing to talk to the London Guardian newspaper with regards to LFC and the remarks he had made to members of the public over the last five weeks?

Yours faithfully,
Mr Mark K Gordon Liverpool fan

FOI CA, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Dear Mr Gordon

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Dear Mr Gordon

 

RSN19512

 

Thank you for your recent request made under the Freedom of Information
Act. Please find the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s response
below.

 

Please can you supply all information with regards to the Metro Mayor and
his family receiving any gifts and or payments from Liverpool Football
Club?

 

Please see the table below detailing the gifts and hospitality provided to
the Metro Mayor by Liverpool Football Club. None of these tickets were
resold and no payments have been received.

 

Date Event Venue Quantity Source Notes
Vicarage Liverpool
Watford v Road, Football
12/08/2017 Liverpool Watford 1 Club
Liverpool
Liverpool Anfield, Football Included
01/11/2017 v Maribor Liverpool 1 Club hospitality
Liverpool Liverpool
v Anfield, Football
03/03/2018 Newcastle Liverpool 1 Club
Liverpool
Liverpool Anfield, Football
24/04/2018 v Roma Liverpool 1 Club
Liverpool
Football Liverpool
Club Anfield, Football Included
10/05/2018 Awards Liverpool 2 Club hospitality
Liverpool Liverpool
v Anfield, Football Included
07/05/2019 Barcelona Liverpool 1 Club hospitality
Pink Liverpool
Music Anfield, Football Included
24/06/2019 Concert Liverpool 2 Club hospitality
Liverpool
Liverpool Anfield, Football
09/08/2019 v Norwich Liverpool 1 Club

 

In the past four weeks, how many meetings has the Metro Mayor held with
LFC and Peter Moore in regards to the trademarking of the word
"Liverpool"?

 

No meetings have taken place, but the Metro Mayor had a telephone
conversation with Peter Moore on 12^th August 2019 to express his concerns
on this topic.

 

How many tickets and/or hospitality packages for home Premier League and
Champions League games has the Metro Mayor and his family been given by
LFC or a third party? Have any of these tickets been pass on for resale?

 

Please see the table provided in response to your first question for
tickets provided by Liverpool Football Club. The table below includes any
tickets provided by third parties. None of these tickets were resold.

 

Date Event Venue Quantity Source Notes
Tickets
were
distributed
Standard to a local
Liverpool v Anfield, Chartered Liverpool
21/05/2017 Middlesbrough Liverpool 6 Bank school
Liverpool v Anfield, Premier Included
18/11/2017 Southampton Liverpool 2 League hospitality
Liverpool v Anfield, Laduma VR
26/09/2018 Chelsea Liverpool 3 Solutions

 

 

Has the Liverpool Metro Mayor taken any payments, or gifts from LFC or
third parties to act as a consultant and side with LFC while acting as an
MP and then the Metro Mayor?

 

No

 

I trust that this information is of interest to you.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review, which should be addressed to:

Jill Coule

Chief Legal Officer / Monitoring Officer

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

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have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address
is

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                Wycliffe House,

                Water Lane,

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                [2]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Andy Henderson

 

Senior Information Management Officer | LCRCA | Mann Island, PO Box 1976,
Liverpool, L69 3HN

Office: 0151 330 1679 | Email: [3][Liverpool City Region Combined Authority request email]  

 

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