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L Barnett made this Freedom of Information request to Isle of Anglesey Council

The request was successful.

From: L Barnett

3 January 2010

Dear Isle of Anglesey 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 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)

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

3. How much of that cost is offset by advertising

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

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

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

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.

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

Some parts of this request may be easier to answer than others, and
should this prove to be the case I would ask that you release
available data as soon as possible rather than hold up the entire
request.

I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If the
decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in
Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.

If you need any clarification then please contact me at the email.
Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would
expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in
any way.

I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have
received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.

Yours faithfully,

L Barnett

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From: LEGA LPOLICY CYFRAITH POLISI
Isle of Anglesey Council

4 January 2010

Thank you for your recent request for information held by Isle of Anglesey County Council. For your information, this is not an automatically generated response.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, we aim to respond to your request within 20 working days. In some instances we may be unable to achieve this deadline, in which case we will advise you of the likely timescale within which the response will be provided.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further advice or guidance relating to the above.

Yours sincerely

Huw Pierce Pritchard

Corporate Information Officer
Isle of Anglesey County Council

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From: BERYL JONES
Isle of Anglesey Council

7 January 2010

Dear L. Barnett,
Please see below the response to your enquiry.

Regards,
Beryl Jones
Information Compliance Officer,
Managing Director's Department,
Anglesey County Council,
Llangefni,
Anglesey
LL77 7TW.

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Alex Skene left an annotation ( 1 July 2010)

The figures released here are discussed in this WalesOnline article:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-...

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