The Freedom of Information Act requires all public authorities, which includes the Derbyshire Dales District Council, to adopt and maintain a publication scheme [pdf 291 kb].

The idea of the scheme is to let everyone know what information will be automatically, or routinely, published by us. The way that the Act does this is to require that the scheme specifies classes of information.

Our publication scheme is based on the model from the Information Commissioner without any deletions. As this is the case it is deemed to be approved by the Information Commissoiner. We believe that openness enables our work and enables us to continue to achieve excellence through democratic accountability and the involvement of our communities, business partners and other stakeholders.

This publication scheme  [pdf 291kb] commits us to make information available to the public as part of our normal business activities.

The scheme commits us:

• To proactively publish or otherwise make available as a matter of routine, information, including environmental information, which is held by us and falls within the classifications below.
• To specify the information which is held by us and falls within the classifications below.
• To proactively publish or otherwise make available as a matter of routine, information in line with the statements contained within this scheme.
• To produce and publish the methods by which the specific information is made routinely available so that it can be easily identified and accessed by members of the public.
• To review and update on a regular basis the information we make available under this scheme.
• To produce a schedule of any fees charged for access to information which is made proactively available.
• To make this publication scheme available to the public