1 Horse Guards Road, 
Information Rights Unit 
London. 
 
SW1A 2HQ 
Tel: 020 7270 4558 
 
Fax: 020 7451 4861 
Millie May 
[HM Treasury request email]  
 
 www.hm-treasury.gov.uk 
By email:  
 
[FOI #680 email]  
Our refs:  
IRU/8/332 
Email/9602/2008 
 
 
 
26th June 2008 
Dear Ms May, 
    
Thank you for your enquiry dated 6th June 2008 for information under the Freedom of 
Information (FoI) Act 2000. 
 
You asked for: 
 
… the proposed publication date for the final report of the Poynter Report … 
 
I am pleased to inform you that the Poynter Review report was published on 
Wednesday 25th June and can be found online.   
 
http://www.hm-
treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/poynter_review/poynter_review_index.cfm   
 
I bring to your attention that government documents have crown copyright and a 
legal statement regarding our copyright is attached. 
 
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the Treasury’s 
Correspondence and Enquiry Unit (CEU) at [HM Treasury request email].  It 
would be helpful to us, if you could remember to quote the IRU reference number 
given in the header to this letter in any future communications.   
 
Yours sincerely, 
 
 
 
Balvinder Chowdhary 
 
Information Rights Unit  
On behalf of HM Treasury 
 
 
 
 

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Crown Copyright. 
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  You are 
free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of 
news reporting.  Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright 
holder.  Most documents supplied by the Treasury will have been produced by Government officials and will be 
Crown Copyright.  You can find details on the arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright on HMSOnline at: 
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/copyright/licences/click-use-home.htm 
 
 
Parliamentary Copyright. 
Parliamentary copyright is defined at Section 165 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as covering works 
made by or under the direction or control of the House of Commons or the House of Lords.  The rights in 
Parliamentary copyright are exercised by the Speaker of the House of Commons (for Commons material) and by the 
Clerk of the Parliaments (for Lords material).  However, the administration of Parliamentary copyright material is 
undertaken by the Office of Public Sector Information under the terms of an agreement with Parliament.  Day-to-day 
administration of Parliamentary copyright is dealt with by the Information Policy Division of the Office of Public Sector 
Information.  http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/parliamentary-copyright/index.htm  
 
 
Your right to complain under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or 
request a review of our decision, you should write within two months of the date of this letter to HM Treasury, 
Information Rights Unit, 2/SW, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ.   
 
Email:  
public.enquiries@hm -treasury.gov.uk  
 
If you are not content with the outcome your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a 
decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided 
by the Treasury.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, 
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. 
 
 
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