Council newspaper

Dear Mr Barnett,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your request for information which I acknowledge was
received by the County Council on the 4th January 2010.

Your request is currently being considered. If the County Council is able
to provide you with the information you have requested, then under the
Freedom Of Information Act you are entitled to receive it within 20
working days.

For your information, the FOI Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent release of some or all of the information you have requested. The
County Council will assess your information request in light of the
exemptions. If exemptions do apply, then the County Council may decide
not to release all, or part, of the information you have requested. I
shall inform you if this is the case, and advise you of your rights of
appeal.

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then
they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken by the County
Council as to whether to release the information to you. You will be kept
informed if this is the case.

Any information provided to you would ordinarily be provided to you as a
paper copy, in normal font size. If you require an alternative format,
e.g. by e-mail, in a different language, or in audio, large print, etc.
then please let me know.

The County Council will not charge a fee to provide you with the
information you have requested, provided the cost of dealing with your
request is less than £450. If it appears likely that your request will
cost more than £450 to deal with then I will write to you again asking if
you are willing to pay the fees incurred, and setting out clearly what
those fees will be, in accordance with the FOI Act.

If you have any queries or should you wish to make a complaint about the
manner in which your request is being dealt with then please do not
hesitate to contact me at the above address in the first instance. Any
complaints will be dealt with under the Council's corporate complaints
procedure.

Further information about your rights under the Freedom of Information
Act, is available from the Information Commissioner's Office (01625 545
700) or [1]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk, and on the County Council's
website.

I will be in touch again shortly.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Turpin
Business Support Co-ordinator
Community Safety & Localities
Customers, Workforce and Governance Directorate
Warwickshire County Council, PO Box 9,
Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RR.

Telephone: (01926) 412888 / Internal 2888
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www.warwarwickshire.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Barnett,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Your request for information has now been considered. The information you
have requested is enclosed.

1. The name, frequency and distribution/circulation of your council
newspaper (by council newspaper I mean the most frequently published
newspaper or magazine intended for mass distribution covering more than
one topic)

Warwickshire View is the name of our council newspaper which is produced 3
issues per year. We distributed to 190,000 households and it is also
available in Libraries, Doctor and Dentists etc.

2. How much it cost to produce and distribute said newspaper in the last
full financial year, and how much was budgeted from council resources in
the financial year 2009/2010

It costs *96,000 to produce and distribute in 2008/09. Although
2009/2010 the figure budgeted was *40,000 one full issue and one
electronic version as well.

3. How much of that cost is offset by advertising.

*4,000

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

*1,000

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

None

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

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

We do not have a guide.

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

No one person is specifically employed to work solely on the magazine.
Work on the magazine is incorporated into the staff's wider role. The
magazine is edited and designed by one person, who also supplies or
sources all the photography. Stories are sourced from press officers in
the communications team.

If you have any queries or should you wish to make a complaint about the
manner in which your request is being dealt with then please do not
hesitate to contact me at the above address in the first instance. Any
complaints will be dealt with under the Council's corporate complaints
procedure.

Further information about your rights under the Freedom of Information
Act, is available from the Information Commissioner's Office (01625 545
700) or [1]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk, and on the County Council's
website.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Turpin
Business Support Co-ordinator
Community Safety & Localities
Customers, Workforce and Governance Directorate
Warwickshire County Council, PO Box 9,
Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RR.

Telephone: (01926) 412888 / Internal 2888
Minicom: 01926 412277
[mobile number]
E-Mail: [email address]
www.warwarwickshire.gov.uk

This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may
contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and
should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or
authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or
disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in
error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or
from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to
recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation.

References

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