Sale of the open voting register for commercial or marketing purposes
Case reference FOI2018/00947
Published 1 October 2018
Request
I request that you provide information regarding the sale of the open voting register for commercial or marketing purposes. I would like to know the following: • How many number of copies and entries of the open voting register has the council sold? • How much income has the council generated? • Which companies and individuals that have purchased data and at what cost? • What is the total number of companies and/or individuals that have purchased data? Please could I get this data broken down by: • Annually since 2015 • Data format and printed format I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If my request is denied in whole or in part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the Act.
Response
We have considered your request for information, as set out in the email below. I can confirm that Guildford Borough Council's records for the sale of the electoral registers are destroyed at the end of each year but we do have a spreadsheet showing how much we have received for each year for the sale of the registers. I have attached a copy of the spreadsheet as this includes the copies of the full registers we have to sell to the credit reference agencies.
The sale of the open register since 2015 has raised the following,
2015 £63.50
2016 £200.00
2017 £349.20
2018 £0.00 so far
Total £612.70
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