Money spent in 2010-11 FY on Digital Economy Act

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Dear Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,

Cost to the tax payer of preventing copyright infringement online under the Digital Economy Act (for work undertaken by BIS before transfer to DCMS)

Please provide the sum total spent in the 2010-2011 financial year (April 2010 to March 2011 inclusive) for all activities across all cost codes for all work in relation to the copyright infringement prevention measures of the Digital Economy Act 2010.

Please include all related work such as internal and external (judicial) reviews of the Act itself, and policy work in relation to drafting of the Initial Obligations Code and (Initial Obligations) (Sharing of Costs) Order 2011.

Please also include policy work in relation to the use of DEA S17 & S18 (web blocking) provisions, and any related policy work looking at "self regulation" (industry-lead) alternatives to achieving a similar outcome to the provisions described in S17 and S18 on a non-statutory basis.

Please indicate whether any work described in the above areas for the period April 2010 - December 2010 was transferred onto the budget for the Department of Media Culture and Sport. (ie if I make an equivalent request of the DCMS, will there be any duplication of accounting for work carried out by BIS.)

Yours faithfully,

James Firth

Editor, slightlyrightofcentre.com

FOI Requests, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

BIS ref: 11/0691

Dear Mr Firth,

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 19 May
2011. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at the
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to deal with.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be responded at the latest by 17 June 2011.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the information
rights unit at BIS. Please remember to quote the reference number above in
any future communications.

Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit

Information Rights Unit | Department for Business, Innovation & Skills |
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Costs incurred within BIS were added to the reply from DCMS when I also asked for their costs:

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