Cost of Placing Statutory Notices in Newspapers
Richard Taylor made this Freedom of Information request to Highways Agency
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Richard Taylor
8 August 2009
Could you please release the amount spent by the agency in 2008/9
on placing statutory notices a) in newspapers and b) elsewhere.
Many thanks,
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Richard Taylor
Cambridge
http://www.rtaylor.co.uk
Jelleyman, Alex
Highways Agency
10 August 2009
Mr Taylor
Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
Regards
Alex
Alex Jelleyman, Managed Motorways Stakeholder Manager (Operations)
Highways Agency | 4 Broadway | Broad Street | Birmingham | B15 1BL
Tel: +44 (0) 121 6788316
Web: [1]http://www.highways.gov.uk
GTN: 6189 8316
Safe roads, Reliable journeys, Informed travellers
Highways Agency, an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport.
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Richard Taylor left an annotation (10 August 2009)
£3,340,426.53 of public money was spent by the Highways Agency on placing statutory notices in newspapers in 2008/9.
Richard Taylor left an annotation (9 September 2009)
I have written an article based on this request:
http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/suggestions-to-...
Richard Taylor left an annotation (17 December 2009)
Speaking in Parliament on the 16th of December 2009 about motorway works in his constituency Labour MP David Winnick said
"Residents were given no proper notification that the work was going to take place. ... All that happened was that some advertisements were placed in the regional press that residents were unlikely to see."
The expensive newspaper adverts are clearly not working. There is an opportunity here to both save a large amount of money and significantly improve communication.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id...
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Richard Taylor
Cambridge
http://www.rtaylor.co.uk
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Richard Taylor left an annotation (8 August 2009)
I have made a related request to my local County Council:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...
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