The Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information (APPSI) today publishes its Annual Report 2009-10. The report sets out:

• the advice that the Panel gave to government in 2009-10; and its recommendations to official consultations that are central to the re-use of public sector information (PSI) agenda, including:

-    the reform of Ordnance Survey’s new business strategy
-    the response to the consultation on the transposition of the INSPIRE Directive [2007/2EC]
-    the response to Government initiatives in information policy
-    the Department of Communities and Local Government’s consultation, Policy Options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey

• the key issues emerging from policy developments which the Panel has discussed and debated at its meetings and annual seminar
• the Panel’s role in spreading knowledge and awareness of the value of PSI
• the Panel’s plans for 2010-2011 to help progress the PSI agenda and
• the costs of operating the Panel during the financial year 2009-10. 

Chair of APPSI, Professor David Rhind CBE, said:

The last year has been the most eventful and active – by far – in the saga of Public Sector Information re-use in the UK.  During the year APPSI provided much advice to Government and other organisations to make PSI more freely and readily available for re-use; our advice covered both the short and the long term. The evidence is that the Panel’s proposed solutions to long-standing issues have stimulated much activity within Government and many of them have helped shape major policy changes.  APPSI looks forward to continuing to use its collective expertise and knowledge to advise government on ways to extract public benefit from Public Sector Information.

See APPSI-Annual-Report-2009.pdf (492.24 KB)

APPSI's Annual Report covers the work of the Panel from April 2008 to March 2009, and sets out some priorities for the future.  The key highlights of the report include:

• the advice that the Panel gave to Michael Wills, Minister of State for Justice in 2008; and its recommendations to official consultations that are central to the re-use of public sector information (PSI) agenda;
• the key issues emerging from policy developments which the Panel has discussed and debated at its meetings and annual seminar;
• the work undertaken by specific members of the Panel in reviewing APPSI's complaints review function; and
• the Panel's role in spreading knowledge and awareness of the value of PSI.

APPSI-Annual_Report-2008-09.pdf (1.48 MB)

Press Release for APPSI Annual Report 2008-09

APPSI's annual report 2007 highlights:

• the marked increase across government in the level of interest and debate in the re-use of public sector information (PSI);
• the increase of public awareness of the issues surrounding re-use and recent coverage in the press;
• APPSI’s paper to Ministers in October 2007 which outlined the need for a Government strategy on the re-use of public sector information, with proposals for the short and medium term;
• APPSI’s responses to important Government studies and consultations:

            - the Office of Fair Trading Market study on the Commercial Use of Public Information
            - the Cabinet Office’s Power of Information Review

• the stepping down of the Chair, Professor Richard Susskind OBE at the end of April 2008, and the appointment of the new Chair, Professor David Rhind CBE.

APPSI's annual report 2007 (PDF - 3.12 MB)

Press Release for APPSI annual report 2007 (PDF - 131 KB)

Today, APPSI has published its financial statement for 2006-07.

See APPSI-Financial-Report-06-07.pdf (44.68 KB)

Today, APPSI published its 2006 annual report.  The 2006 report

• offers broad support for the recent merger between The National Archives and the Office of Public Sector Information
• welcomes APPSI's relocation, as an NDPD, from the Cabinet Office to the Department of Constitutional Affairs
• stresses the importance of the recent OFT Market Study on the Commercial Use of Public Information
• provides a summary of APPSI's response to Trasnformation Government
• provides a series of 16 short case studies that highlight how public sector information can be re-used.

See press release for further details.

See 2006 APPS annual report.