Bus Vannin Accessibility Steering Group

Summary

The requester asked for meeting dates and minutes for the Bus Vannin Accessibility Steering Group since its inception in April 2021. The Department of Infrastructure disclosed all requested information, providing four specific meeting dates and attaching the corresponding minutes.

Key Facts

• The Bus Vannin Accessibility Steering Group was established with terms of reference published in April 2021.
• Four monthly meetings were held between June 2021 and March 2022.
• Copies of the meeting minutes for all four meetings were provided as appendices.
• The request was processed by the Department of Infrastructure's FOI Response Team.
• The authority confirmed that all information requested was sent to the applicant.

Data Disclosed

• 2470077
• 2022-05-24
• 2022-06-22
• April 2021
• 10/06/2021
• 03/08/2021
• 24/01/2022
• 29/03/2022
• IM1 2RF
• (01624) 686785

Original Request

Since the establishment of this Group and the published terms of reference in April 2021, could you please provide the following:- (1) Dates of the monthly meetings held since Group inception (2) Copies of the meeting minutes for each of those meetings

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Department of Infrastructure Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF

Contact: FOI Response Team Telephone: (01624) 686785 Email: dpo-doi@gov.im

Our ref: 2470077 22 June 2022

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 24 May 2022 and which states:

"Since the establishment of this Group and the published terms of reference in April 2021, could you please provide the following:- (1) Dates of the monthly meetings held since Group inception (2) Copies of the meeting minutes for each of those meetings"

Our response to your request is as follows: 1. The dates of the monthly meetings held since the inception of the Bus Vannin Accessibility Steering Group were: 10/06/2021, 03/08/2021, 24/01/2022, 29/03/2022. 2. Copies of the meeting minutes for each of these meetings are attached in Appendices 1 – 4.

Please quote the reference number 2470077 in any future communications.

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