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L Barnett made this Freedom of Information request to Amber Valley Borough Council

The request was partially successful.

From: L Barnett

3 January 2010

Dear Amber Valley Borough 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: Jones, Joan
Amber Valley Borough Council

4 January 2010

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Dear L Barnett

Please see attached.

Joan Jones
Civic Links & FOI Officer

This email together with any files transmitted with it is confidential,
may be legally privileged and may contain personal views that are not the
views of the Council. They are intended solely for the use of the
individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

If you have received this email in error please notify me immediately and
delete the email and all attachments. You must take no action based on it
nor should you disclose, copy, distribute, or rely on it for any purpose
or disclose its contents to any other person.

The Council reserves the right to monitor both sent and received emails.

As a sender or recipient of this email you should be aware that under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations
2004, the contents of this email may have to be disclosed to fulfil any
request for information.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, however, your personal data will be
protected. Nevertheless, you should be aware that your information may be
shared with other departments within the Council for the purpose of
preventing fraud or misuse of public funds. This information may also be
used for the prevention and detection of crime and disclosed for the
purposes of conducting legal proceedings and for meeting any legal or
statutory requirements. It may be shared with public bodies such as the
Audit Commission and other governmental agencies and departments for
similar purposes and data-matching exercises.

Although this email and attachments have been swept by a scanner for the
presence of known computer viruses, no representations are made that they
are virus free and the Council cannot accept liability for any viruses
that may be in this email. The Council recommends that you check all
emails with an appropriate virus scanner.

Unless its prior written agreement is obtained, the Council does not
accept service of documents or enter into contracts by email.

The postal address for the Council is available on www.ambervalley.gov.uk

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From: Jones, Joan
Amber Valley Borough Council

19 January 2010

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Dear L Barnett

Please see attached response.

Joan Jones
Civic Links & FOI Officer

This email together with any files transmitted with it is confidential,
may be legally privileged and may contain personal views that are not the
views of the Council. They are intended solely for the use of the
individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

If you have received this email in error please notify me immediately and
delete the email and all attachments. You must take no action based on it
nor should you disclose, copy, distribute, or rely on it for any purpose
or disclose its contents to any other person.

The Council reserves the right to monitor both sent and received emails.

As a sender or recipient of this email you should be aware that under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations
2004, the contents of this email may have to be disclosed to fulfil any
request for information.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, however, your personal data will be
protected. Nevertheless, you should be aware that your information may be
shared with other departments within the Council for the purpose of
preventing fraud or misuse of public funds. This information may also be
used for the prevention and detection of crime and disclosed for the
purposes of conducting legal proceedings and for meeting any legal or
statutory requirements. It may be shared with public bodies such as the
Audit Commission and other governmental agencies and departments for
similar purposes and data-matching exercises.

Although this email and attachments have been swept by a scanner for the
presence of known computer viruses, no representations are made that they
are virus free and the Council cannot accept liability for any viruses
that may be in this email. The Council recommends that you check all
emails with an appropriate virus scanner.

Unless its prior written agreement is obtained, the Council does not
accept service of documents or enter into contracts by email.

The postal address for the Council is available on www.ambervalley.gov.uk

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