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L Barnett made this Freedom of Information request to City of London Corporation

The request was partially successful.

From: L Barnett

3 January 2010

Dear City of London Corporation,

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: Gasson, Michael
City of London Corporation

4 January 2010

The City of London acknowledges receipt of your request.

City of London
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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From: COL - EB - Information Officer
City of London Corporation

7 January 2010

Following your request for information of 3 January 2010, and our
acknowledgement of 4 January, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

1. City Resident, quarterly, to all residents in the City of London owned,
or privately owned, housing in the Square Mile.

2. £15,000 for both questions
3. N/A
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. One person. The cost information is not held in that production of City
Resident is just one element of one officer's responsibilities, which are
not timesheeted, and approximate time spent on any one issue can fluctuate
according to complexity. But as a rough estimate, the four issues may in
total equate to a cost of circa £10,000 a year.

We hope that this response is of assistance, Nevertheless, should you wish
to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your enquiry, please
make your complaint in writing to email address:
[email address]. For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

The FOIA applies to the City of London as a local authority, police
authority and port health authority. Subject to any other statutory
provisions requiring the City of London to disclose information, release
of information outside the scope of the Act is subject to the discretion
of the City of London.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. The supply of it does
not give a right to re-use it in a way that would infringe that copyright,
for example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public
or to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

City of London
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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