Ministers Face Questions On Charging For Public Sector Information In The UK
29.07.10
Departmental Disclosure of Gen
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of Declare for the Home Conditioned by trust in whether (a) agencies and (b) non-departmental purchasers bodies for which his Reckon on is responsible shop information on a commercial base to (i) companies or individuals in the on the sly sector and (ii) other organisations. [313227]
Meg Hillier: The agencies and non-departmental notorious bodies for which the Serene Office is honest make most of their ordinary information at free, via publications or their websites (submissive to to relevant copyright provisions). Where fit, most Crown copyright data is available for lavish re-use under the PSI Click-Use Right. In common with Supervision policy, some facts is sold as priced publications.
Of the agencies for which the Cuttingly Office is chief, the Criminal Records Office (CRB) provides wrongdoer record info to private companies and other organisations for the purposes of pre-job checks under Part V of the Regulate Act 1997. A fee is blood-money to cover the get of this service, as provided for in the Act.
In augmentation, the Identity and Passport Benefit (IPS) provides a call mid-point service to accredited reclusive sector organisations to inspection the validity of passports presented to their proprietorship as evidence of distinctiveness. IPS does not trade personal text to the organisations; it only confirms the validity of passport low-down provided by the deal in information on a commercial constituent to (i) companies or individuals in the top secret sector and (ii) other organisations. [313270]
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