Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture air travel miles: FOI release

Information requested

How many miles Angus Robertson has travelled by air since returning from Dublin on 26/07/2023, broken down by each individual trip.

Response

Following his trip to Dublin in July 2023, Mr Robertson has travelled at least 33,204 miles by air. The table below provides the breakdown requested.

Outward date of trip	Destination	Mileage
1 September 2023	London, UK	330
9 October 2023	Toronto, Sydney and Montréal, Canada	9,075
22 November 2023	Beijing and Shanghai, China	14,024
23 January 2024	Brussels, Belgium	n/a
19 March 2024	Copenhagen, Denmark	1,616
1 April 2024	Washington DC and Newark, USA	6,711
6 May 2024	Berlin, Germany	1,448

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. Therefore we are refusing that part of your request under the exception at regulation 17(1) Information not held of FOISA. The reason is that some internal flights during Mr Robertson's trip to China were booked locally and no mileage information was supplied by the airline. In addition, no mileage information was supplied by the airline for the flight to Brussels. This is a formal notice that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information requested.

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