Links Rees' company did work for firms he signed deals with as mayor

THE former Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, has revealed a company he set up has recently been paid by two organisations who had signed major contracts with Bristol City Council when he was in charge of the city.

- Tristan CORK

Since leaving office in May 2024, Marvin Rees was enobled and is now Lord Rees of Easton, and now has to declare other income under parliamentary rules of registered interests.

The main company on Lord Rees' list of Registered Interests is a company called Three and Two Ltd. The company was incorporated on April 19, 2024 - less than two weeks before his last day in the role of mayor at City Hall in Bristol.

The company is registered at Companies House to a private address in South Gloucestershire and Lord Rees is listed as its only director.

Under the parliamentary list of Registered Interests, Lord Rees has described Three and Two Ltd as a 'personal services company for the member's consultancy work and public speaking'.

While he was mayor of Bristol and since he left office, Mr Rees has been a regular speaker at a range of conferences, events and festivals around Britain and further afield - particularly in the US - on subjects around the environment, race, class, international development, cities and leadership.

Lord Rees has added information on who the clients of Three and Two Ltd are.

They are listed as Ameresco, Cambridge Management Consulting, the Mayors Migration Council, the University of Pennsylvania, Empire Fighting Chance, and a think-tank called the Overseas Development Institute.

In an undated article on using technology to decarbonise the public sector, on Cambridge Management Consulting's website, Lord Rees is named as someone who presented a Ted Talk on the role of cities, and was named as someone on the board of directors for Cambridge Management Consulting.