AYLESBURY VALE DISTRICT COUNCIL
www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk
OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
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DP □ Data Protection Act 1998 (£10 fee payable)
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FOI 945
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EIR
exceptionally extended +40 working days after date of receipt*
Date Reply Sent:
Date Received on: 3rd Jan. 2010
Reply Due by: 29th Jan. 2010
29th January 2010
Question asked (as phrased by customer)
AVDC response
-----Original Message-----
Dear Sir/Madam,
From: L Barnett [mailto:request-25771-
[email address]]
Thank you for your information request to
Sent: 03 January 2010 15:45
Aylesbury Vale District Council. Please find
To: Data Protection
our response to your request with each item
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Council
newspapers
numbered to correspond with the question
asked:
Dear Aylesbury Vale District Council,
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information
Act, I wish to receive the following information
from your authority:
1. The name, frequency and
1. The AVDC magazine is called
District
distribution/circulation of your council
Link and is published three times a year.
newspaper (by council newspaper I mean the
most frequently
published newspaper or magazine intended for
mass distribution
covering more than one topic)
2. 2008/9 actual expenditure £38,891
2. How much it cost to produce and
distribute said newspaper in the
2009/10 budget is £36,500
last full financial year, and how much was
budgeted from council
resources in the financial year 2009/2010
3. How much of that cost is offset by
3. None – no advertising carried.
advertising
4. How much of that advertising, if any,
4. N/A
comes from external
sources (ie not from your authority's
budgets)?
5. Which other public sector partners pay to 5. N/A
run advertising in
your newspaper, eg PCTs?
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The copyright in the material contained in this document is owned by Aylesbury Vale District Council unless otherwise stated. The supply of
documents under the Freedom of Information Act does not give the person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public. Brief extracts
of the material may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the
purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by
Aylesbury Vale District Council should be sought from the copyright holders concerned. If in doubt, users should contact us in the first instance
6. Whether recruitment advertising forms
6. N/A
part of the advertising in
your newspaper?
7. A copy of an editorial policy guide, if
one exists, which
7. Editorial policy attached.
governs the material which is placed in the
newspaper, and how it
is decided
8. A copy of an advertising policy guide, if 8. N/A
one exists, which
governs what sort of advertising is
suitable.
9. The number of people employed to put your 9. Two members of staff produce the
newspaper/newsletter
magazine – one as editor and one as designer.
together, including total cost and staff
Both of the employees work on other projects
organisation chart
and the time spent on the magazine
Some parts of this request may be easier to
production is not recorded separately.
answer than others, and
Therefore, the cost of staff time is not
should this prove to be the case I would ask available as a separate figure. Staff structure
that you release
for the team is attached as requested.
available data as soon as possible rather
than hold up the entire
request.
I would prefer to receive this information
Should you require further information,
electronically. If the decision is made to
please contact
withhold some of this data using exemptions in
[Aylesbury Vale District Council request email] or write to
Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the
exemptions used.
the address below.
If you need any clarification then please contact If you feel that your request has not been
me at the email.
properly handled or if you are dissatisfied
Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and
assistance I would expect you to contact me if
with the outcome, you can request an internal
you find this request unmanageable in any way.
review in accordance with the Council's
Comments and Complaints procedure. You
I would be grateful if you could confirm in
will find details of the procedure on our
writing that you have received this request, and website www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk under
I look forward to hearing from you in the near
the heading Council and Democracy.
future.
Please note that you have the right to make a
Yours faithfully,
complaint direct to the Information
L Barnett
Commissioner and details on how to do this
are set out on the Information
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Yours faithfully,
replies to this request:
Philip Giles / Karen McMahon
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The copyright in the material contained in this document is owned by Aylesbury Vale District Council unless otherwise stated. The supply of
documents under the Freedom of Information Act does not give the person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public. Brief extracts
of the material may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the
purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by
Aylesbury Vale District Council should be sought from the copyright holders concerned. If in doubt, users should contact us in the first instance
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© Copyright AVDC 2005
The copyright in the material contained in this document is owned by Aylesbury Vale District Council unless otherwise stated. The supply of
documents under the Freedom of Information Act does not give the person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public. Brief extracts
of the material may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the
purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by
Aylesbury Vale District Council should be sought from the copyright holders concerned. If in doubt, users should contact us in the first instance
