Dr Carlton Brand BA. MSc. EngD

Director of Resources

L Barnett

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Please ask for: Lesley Crawford Our ref: RFI 1958 Your ref:

20^th January 2010

County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 8JN

Dear L Barnett

Request for Information - RFI 1958 - Council newspaper

Thank you for your request for information received 4^th January 2010.

As of 1^st April 2009 Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and North Wiltshire District Councils and Wiltshire County Council ceased to exist and a unitary authority, Wiltshire Council, was created.

In response to your request for information, please find our officers response as follows:

We produce a residents' magazine. This will be produced twice this financial year and is scheduled to be published seven times in 2010/2011 

Gross cost for 2009/10 is approximately £71,000

Gross cost for 2010/11 is budgeted for £240,000 

3. How much of that cost is offset by advertising 

Advertising income for 2009/2010 is anticipated to be £8,000

Advertising income for 2010/11 is anticipated to be £35,000 

4. How much of that advertising, if any, comes from external sources (i.e. not from your authority's budgets)? 

All external advertising 

5. Which other public sector partners pay to run advertising in your newspaper, e.g. PCTs? 

Any advertising sourced from public sector partners would be on top of the figure given in answers to question 3. No target has been set in relation to this. 

6. Whether recruitment advertising forms part of the advertising in your newspaper? 

No 

7. A copy of an editorial policy guide, if one exists, which governs the material which is placed in the newspaper, and how it is decided 

Copy will be determined to ensure it is in line with the emergent corporate plan once it is agreed. 

8. A copy of an advertising policy guide, if one exists, which governs what sort of advertising is suitable. 

Please see attached documents: 8 RFI 1958 090807 AS income gen Policy

9 RFI 1958 090807 AS external Policy

9. The number of people employed to put your newspaper/newsletter together, including total cost and staff organisation chart

No one person is employed solely for the production of the newspaper. Time spend on its production is not fully recorded and therefore it is not possible to provide this.

The Council has not withheld any information in relation to this request under the exemptions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I hope the information received is what you were expecting.  However if you are unhappy with what has been provided, you can raise a complaint under the Council's Freedom of Information Complaints Procedure (enclosed) or you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, 01625 545745. If you would like to discuss any of the information provided to you or would like further information on the complaints procedure, please contact me on the above number.

Information supplied under the Freedom of Information Act and/or Environmental Information Regulations will be subject to copyright protection under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Information can be re-used for the purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, for private study or for news reporting and reviews, without requiring formal consent. However, if you wish to re-use the information for commercial purposes, including publishing, you are required to seek the permission of the copyright owner. Permission to re-use Wiltshire Council's copyright information is granted in the form of a licence. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by Wiltshire Council should be sought from the copyright holders concerned.

Yours sincerely

Lesley Crawford (Mrs)

Corporate Information Officer

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