FOI request (FOI208598)

Council direct communication magazines

Requested Mon 06 March 2017
Responded Mon 06 March 2017

1)      The amount spent in pounds sterling on any council direct communication magazines (eg. Brent’s The Brent Magazine), broken down by financial year, from 2012/13-2016/17 inclusive (I understand the 2016/17 figure may not be a full-financial year figure);

2)      How often any council direct communication magazines are produced (ie. annually, quarterly, monthly);

3)      How many copies of any council direct communication magazines are printed each issue;

4)      The name and address of the company that designs and/or produces the content for any council direct communication magazines, if not an in-house production;

5)      The amount paid in pounds sterling to the company that designs and/or produces the content for any council direct communication magazines, broken down by financial year, from 2012/13-2016/17 inclusive (I understand the 2016/17 figure may not be a full-financial year figure), if not an in-house production;

6)      The name and address of the company that prints any council direct communication magazines, if not an in-house production;

7)      The amount paid in pounds sterling to the company that prints any council direct communication magazines, broken down by financial year, from 2012/13-2016/17 inclusive (I understand the 2016/17 figure may not be a full-financial year figure), if not an in-house production; and

8)      A PDF copy of the latest issue of any council direct communication magazines.

Response

Q1& Q2 - Hastings Borough Council used to produce a quarterly A4 magazine for some years until around 2010, but this was then reduced in size and frequency to two A5 editions in 2012/13.Publication ceased with the winter 2012 edition
Q3 - 42k per issue
Q4 - In-house
Q5 - This was an in-house magazine
Q6 - The most competitive price was sourced. Most commonly this was printed by Hastings Printing Company who ceased trading in 2015.
Q7 - For 2012 we paid approximately £15,380 in print cost.
Q8 - Please see attached

Attachments

• FOI208598_about_50_for_web.pdf