Smith, Tony wrote: > As far as I am aware, the house price information is relatively new. For quite a while they have had a database that gives you the average price of house sales by post code sector. So it could be that they want to avoid having to deal with requests under FOI along the lines of "What information was used to arrive at the average house price sale for .......?". -- Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services 88 Star Road, Caversham, Berks RG4 5BE, UK Tel:+44 118 947 2256, Mobile: +44 7764 936733 Fax:+44 870 056 8547 Mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.rba.co.uk/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm Any queries about sending or receiving message please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^