Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

APPSI's response to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation paper on Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008 was submitted today.

APPSI's letter to DCLG makes the following points:

 

• that the Government's consultations on Local Authority property searches do not refer specifically to the Re-use of Public Sector Regulations 2005;
• that DCLG should consult the Director of OPSI and her team about how best to clarify the relationship between the draft Regulations on property search charges and the Re-use Regulations.
• that the supply of property records should be monitored periodically with a view to assessing whether or not the absence of such an obligation, is constraining the re-use of public sector information.

         See APPSI's response to DCLG (PDF - 147 KB) 

Since submitting its response to DCLG, APPSI has learned that DCLG's main consultation on property searches does indeed refer to the PSI Regulations 2005. See Charges for Property Search Services: A Consultation Paper, January 2008, pp. 50-51.

Today, David Rhind, Chair of APPSI is giving a presentation at a PISCES Conference in Edinburgh. PISCES is a non profit e-commerce organisation that develops and maintains an open global industry standard for property related data exchanges. The conference will bring together approximately seventy senior executives from the public and private sectors to explore how, in this current economic climate, efficiencies through improved communication of business information can made using the latest technology and facilitated by the role of e-business standards.

The highlights of this meeting include:

• Presentation by Dr. Mark Walport, Director, Wellcome Trust on the Data Sharing Review M.Walport presentation.ppt (139.5 KB)
• Presentation by Ramesh Harji, Head of Information Exploitation, Capgemini on the followup to the Information Opportunity Report (March 2007)

Minutes - 18 September 2008