Mayor Rees foreign trips

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Dear Bristol City Council,
Please supply the following information about trips abroad made by Marvin Rees, in his capacity as mayor, from the date of his appointment to the present day.
Dates, destination, duration, event, purpose, cost to the council, benefits to the council and the city. Where costs were covered by other bodies please detail these.
Please also include the same information, along with names/roles for any accompanying council officials/staff.
Yours faithfully,
Paul Brooks

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"Customer Relations Team" <complaints.feedback@bristol.gov.uk>, Bristol City Council

Dear Paul Brooks
Thank you for submitting your Public Information Request dated 08/04/2019. Your unique reference for this case is CRN00221876 , please use should you need to get in
touch with us in the future. 
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Dear "Customer Relations Team" <[email address]>,
Bristol City Council are now in breach of the law, having not supplied information requested under Freedom of Information case no. CRN00221876. Please explain why, and expedite fulfillment of this request.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Brooks

"Customer Relations Team" <complaints.feedback@bristol.gov.uk>, Bristol City Council

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You sent us a Freedom of Information request on 08/04/2019

Your request number is CRN00221876

Our reply to your request is:  

Please find attached international travel data for the Mayor in
accordance with your request. This data covers travel for the Mayor
from his appointment in May 2016 to the date of your request (5th
April 2019).
 
It is based on information previously published in response to FOI
requests about the Mayor and accompanying officer travel, for May
2016 – June 2018 (Appendix 1) and the new format for international
travel data recording from July 2018 onwards that will shortly be
available on Council website (Appendix 2).
 
We have provided the name, title and position of Members and senior
officers of third tier and above. Where names have been withheld,
this is in accordance with Section 40(2) of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Job titles have been supplied for all posts.
 
 

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"Customer Relations Team" <complaints.feedback@bristol.gov.uk>, Bristol City Council

Dear Mr Brooks,

 

Thank you for your further email. Please accept our apologies that
the response was late and this was not addressed in our reply.

 

While the Council keeps a record of the purpose of each trip, we do
not hold recorded information in relation to the benefits to the
council and the city.

 

If you’re not satisfied with our response:

 

Email: [1][Bristol City Council request email]

 

Write to: Customer Relations (100TS), PO Box 3176, Bristol, BS3 9FS

 

If you’re still not satisfied with our response:

 

You can complain to the Information Commissioner via their website:
[2]www.ico.org.uk or writing to:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

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