UK Politicians question PSI policy
UK Parliamentarians continue to raise questions on the UK Governments intentions on opening up public sector information re-use within the UK including the impact of the European Union INSPIRE Directive.
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“Ordnance Survey: Income
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much income Ordnance Survey received from the sale of (a) licences and (b) maps in each of the last three years. [309849]
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Mr. Ian Austin: For the last three years for which complete information is available the income received by Ordnance Survey in the categories indicated, was:
£ million
Revenue from licences
Revenue from paper maps
2006-07
98.6
9.1
2007-08
101.4
9.6
2008-09
102.3
8.9
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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Databases
Bob Russell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much was received in payments from private companies for information from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database in each of the last five financial years; and how much he estimates will be received from such payments in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. [309721]
Paul Clark [holding answer 11 January 2010]: The following table shows the income received from private companies for information from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's Databases.
£ million
2004-05
4.7
2005-06
6.2
2006-07
7.0
2007-08
8.1
2008-09
8.7
2009-10
19.2
(1) Estimated forecast to year end Note: Figures are not currently available for 2010-11
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“Electoral Register
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the reasons are for the time taken to implement the CORE electoral registration programme. [308406]
Mr. Wills: A detailed specification for the Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors (CORE) has been completed. However, the Government have paused the CORE project to allow time for the detailed arrangements for supporting the implementation of individual electoral registration to be developed, since individual electoral registration may impact on the design of the CORE system. In the meantime, work has continued on the implementation of electoral registration data standards. I wrote to the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Parties and Plaid Cymru on 24 July 2009 setting out these considerations in more detail.
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Electoral Register: Expenditure
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to the public purse of the (a) LASER and (b) CORE electoral registration projects have been to date. [308816]
Mr. Wills: I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer of 26 November 2009, Official Report, column 1653W.
It is not possible to accurately quantify the cost of the LASER project as not all the information is available. This project pre-dated the CORE electoral registration project and was managed by the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. No capital costs were incurred.
The cost of the CORE project to date, excluding staff costs, is £3,760,981. The increase since my previous answer is attributable to £676,333 grant in aid for local authorities to support the implementation of electoral registration data standards and £5,000 for the market testing of possible procurement options.
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This expenditure will produce benefits for electoral registration generally, by improving the accuracy and utility of the data within the local authority, and there are also potential benefits for the development of individual registration, irrespective of whether or not CORE goes ahead.”
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Geographical Information Systems
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 May 2009, Official Report, column 1284W, on geographical information systems, whether the definition of cadastral parcels has been finalised for the purposes of implementation of the INSPIRE Directive. [308741]
Dan Norris: The draft INSPIRE Implementing Rule for Annex I Data Specifications (including Cadastral Parcels) was unanimously passed by the INSPIRE Comitology Committee on 14 December 2009. This document will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union later in 2010 as a Regulation.
The Implementing Rule does not further define the scope beyond the INSPIRE Directive statement as "Areas defined by cadastral registers or equivalent." The INSPIRE Feature Concept Dictionary extends that definition and this is also developed in the INSPIRE Cadastral Parcels Data Specification Guidelines at: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2
From this it can be inferred, that the minimum requirement for the United Kingdom, is the legal property land parcel data, recorded as vector data, by the Land Registries in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. That data are dependent on Ordnance Survey data in Great Britain and Land and Property Services data in Northern Ireland.”
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Review of the 30-year Rule
Mr. Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish the Government's response to the Review of the 30 Year Rule submitted to his Department in January 2009. [309949]
Mr. Wills: The Government are finalising their response to the review of the 30-year rule and this will be published in due course.”
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