BIS Senior Officials travel: Quarterly Return
This report shows international travel undertaken by BIS Senior Officials at SCS2 (or equivalent) and above. The report includes bookings made through the department’s central booking system. This will include the majority of travel undertaken. However, individuals may have booked a small number of journeys through other systems. Work is ongoing to ensure that this data is incorporated into future reports. Some data may have been redacted if it was deemed that publishing it could impact on national or personal security.
Trust score
How is this computed?Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).
- Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
- Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
- Metadata completenessweight 20%31/100
4 of 13 recommended metadata fields populated.
- License clarityweight 15%100/100
Normalised to ogl-uk-3.0 — open, redistributable.
- Agent readinessweight 15%25/100
7 distribution(s) declared · DCAT themes assigned
Data schema (8 fields)
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name of Official | text | — |
| Mode of Travel | text | — |
| Date of Departure | text | — |
| Duration of Stay | int | — |
| Destination | text | — |
| City of Accommodation (if different to destination) | text | — |
| Class of Travel | text | — |
| Base Sales including Tax | number | — |
Schema inferred from the distribution file's first records 2 days ago. Column types are sampled estimates, not source-declared.
Sample data (5 records)
| Name of Official | Mode of Travel | Date of Departure | Duration of Stay | Destination | City of Accommodation (if different to destination) | Class of Travel | Base Sales including Tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLAS/TERA MRS | AIR | 10/25/2013 | 1 | Helsinki | DISCOUNT ECONOMY | 294.3 | |
| ALLAS/TERA MRS | AIR | 10/28/2013 | 1 | Berlin Germa | DISCOUNT ECONOMY | 225.9 | |
| ALLAS/TERA MRS | AIR | 10/29/2013 | 1 | London Heathrow Airport | DISCOUNT ECONOMY | 223.2 | |
| ALLAS/TERA MRS | RAIL | 10/20/2013 | 2 | SECOND CLASS RAIL | 272 | ||
| ALLAS/TERA MRS | HOTEL | 2 | Helsinki | 82.87 |
Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
Verification Status
Using the API
Query examples
curl -sL 'https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305407/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr3-oct-dec-2013.csv' -o data.csvFull csv file download — the schema shown was inferred from the file's first records.
Dataset
License
- ✓ Redistributable
- ✓ Attribution required
- Category: national
Themes
Distributions (7)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305407/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr3-oct-dec-2013.csv
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305407/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr3-oct-dec-2013.csvhttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275857/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-q2-2013.csv
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275857/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-q2-2013.csvhttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/342494/Dept_for_Business_Innovation___Skills__BIS__Senior_Officials_Travel_Report_January_to_March_2014.csv
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/342494/Dept_for_Business_Innovation___Skills__BIS__Senior_Officials_Travel_Report_January_to_March_2014.csvhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-senior-officials-travel-july-to-september-2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-senior-officials-travel-july-to-september-2013https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305408/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr3-oct-dec-2013.xls
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305408/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr3-oct-dec-2013.xlshttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305410/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr1-april-june-2013.csv
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305410/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr1-april-june-2013.csvhttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305411/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr1-april-june-2013.xls
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305411/bis-senior-officials-international-travel-data-qtr1-april-june-2013.xls