The new government’s travel expenses bill for its first three months in office is just over $27,000, according to data released on its new expenses website today.

Ministers made eight overseas trips between August 16 and October 14 to the US, Europe and the Caribbean.

Details of the various ministerial trips since the Progressive Labour Party came to power on July 18 were released this afternoon on the Government’s new travel expenses site.

The site showed that Minister of Social Development and Sport Zane DeSilva’s four-day trip to support Bermudian participants at Caribbean culture celebration Carifesta XIII in Barbados cost $4,818. The bill included $1,852 for flights and $2,215 for accommodation.

A recent trip to London, Paris and Brussels between October 7 and 14 by David Burt, the Premier, to speak to British and European officials about “the pending Blacklist threat to Bermuda” cost just over $6,000.

The overall cost included $2,285 on air travel, $918 on ground transportation, $2,589 on accommodation and $236 on meals.

The Premier was accompanied on the trip by a Ministry of Finance official and the director of the London UK office was also involved.

In September Mr Burt joined Jamahl Simmons, the Minister of Tourism, to travel to the US Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference in Washington DC.

The two ministers also travelled to New York to meet leaders of fund management, private-equity and venture-capital companies to “build business relationships and attract new investment”.

According to the information on the Government’s website the two trips cost just over $3,500 in total.

A further trip by the Premier and a Bermuda Development Agency official to New York between September 19 and 21 cost a further $4,738 which included $3,130 in air travel and $1,589 in accommodation.

The expenses website said the trip was to “meet and participate in various high level meetings with current and prospective international business clients”.

Two overseas trips taken by Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, in September totalled just over $2,000.

The first trip to Miami involved attendance at a meeting of the Caribbean Action Task Force Steering Group and the annual Council of Ministers meeting.

On the second trip Mr Caines met Dr David Kennedy and his team at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to learn about gang reduction strategies.

And Walter Roban, the Minister of Transport, visited London last month to attend London International Shipping Week 2017 and Capital Link Forum.

Mr Roban was accompanied by acting permanent secretary Aideen Ratteray Pryse on the trip, which cost a total of $6,149 including $2,661 in air travel, $550 on ground transportation and $2,854 on accommodation.

Lovitta Foggo, the Government Reform Minister, said the page contained current and historic information and would be updated as ministers travel overseas.

She added: “I am pleased to reintroduce the ministers travel expenses page on the government website.”

“I am committed to full transparency and this page will detail the location and reason for a minister’s international travel together with how much they spent while travelling.”

The page can be found at www.gov.bm/travel-calendar