Council newspapers
Dear Aylesbury Vale District 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
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: Request for information
Thank you for your information request to Aylesbury Vale District Council.
We will handle your enquiry as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) and / or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and /or the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) - depending upon the scope of your request.
If your question(s) seems to us in any way ambiguous or unclear we will contact you to clarify what precisely you wish to know. However, any information that is already published is exempt from specific disclosure but we will direct you to the relevant source as part of our response.
· If the subject of your request is determined to be within the scope of the EIR we may make a reasonable charge for photocopying and postage. If so we will let you know as soon as possible how much (if any) to pay and when you might expect a full reply. Alternatively you have a right to inspect documents by appointment at our offices without charge after we have notified you that the relevant papers have been collated. The statutory response deadline is 20 working days (excludes weekends) extendable up to 40 days if the request is "complex and/or voluminous".
· If the subject of your request is determined to be within the scope of the DPA we may make a fixed charge of £10. If so we will let you know as soon as possible. The statutory response deadline is 40 elapsed days (including weekends but excluding Bank Holidays) following receipt of payment and proof of identity.
· If the subject of your request involves information falling within more than one Information Access Procedure (FOI, EIR, DPA) then we will advise you of the extent of any charges and the timescale applicable for response to each part of the request.
· Otherwise your request will be dealt with under FOI. There is not usually a charge for this service. Assuming that there is no charge we will respond fully to your request within 20 working days (excluding weekends, Bank Holidays and any other days when our offices are closed). However if it becomes apparent that our work to prepare a response will take more than 18 hours of staff time then we are allowed by law to either refuse the request or quote a charge for the full cost of the work. If so we will write to you again within the 20 working day period. If a price is quoted, the reply deadline would be suspended and you would then have up to 3 months to pay or the request would lapse.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
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Any proposed commercial exploitation would require our prior consent under the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. If we agree to such use, then we may levy a copyright waiver licence charge - this would be additional to any FOI/EIR charges.
Yours faithfully,
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Team
On behalf of the Head of Information Technology
Aylesbury Vale District Council
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Dear Sir/Madam
Further to your recent information request, please find attached our
official response.
Regards
Karen
Karen McMahon
Admin Assistant
IT Division
Aylesbury Vale District Council
4 Great Western Street
Aylesbury
Bucks, HP20 2TW
Tel: 01296 585771
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