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Many thanks to those who replied to my email about research charges. A number of people expressed an interest in the findings, so please find a summary below. Most respondents were from local government archive services and mostly charged in the region of £20-£25 per hour. The most expensive charges I heard about (other than TNA's £15 for 15mins) were £29.38 for 45 mins plus £23.50 for each subsequent half hour, inc VAT, although I am sure that there are other places that charge as high, if not higher. It was pointed out that private researchers would charge a lot more. Some places do distinguish between personal and commercial customers, while others do not. It was pointed out that a lot of the "public" actually are professional genealogists, although they are not up-front about this. Some archive services seem work out their charges based on what other records offices charge, and some are determined by council committees etc. But there were a number of factors which people mentioned which should help in coming to a justified charge: Hourly rate of pay of person doing research, plus staff-on costs (NI, annual leave, pensions etc) of around 30%, plus overheads and VAT. Then there is the question of whether a sum should be added to cover premises costs, cataloguing costs etc as these make the searches possible in the first place, there are apparently stipulations regarding this in copyright law. £25 per person per hour is the charge allowed to be considered in working out FOI costs. Hope this helps. Louise Cordery Archivist Glamorgan Archives Clos Parc Morgannwg Leckwith Cardiff, CF11 8AW Tel: 029 2087 2200 www.glamro.gov.uk ********************************************************************** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer does not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the Council of the City and County of Cardiff shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. All e-mail sent to or from this address will be processed by Cardiff County Councils Corporate E-mail system and may be subject to scrutiny by someone other than the addressee. ********************************************************************** Mae'n bosibl bod gwybodaeth gyfrinachol yn y neges hon. Os na chyfeirir y neges atoch chi'n benodol (neu os nad ydych chi'n gyfrifol am drosglwyddo'r neges i'r person a enwir), yna ni chewch gopio na throsglwyddo'r neges. Mewn achos o'r fath, dylech ddinistrio'r neges a hysbysu'r anfonwr drwy e-bost ar unwaith. Rhowch wybod i'r anfonydd ar unwaith os nad ydych chi neu eich cyflogydd yn caniatau e-bost y Rhyngrwyd am negeseuon fel hon. Rhaid deall nad yw'r safbwyntiau, y casgliadau a'r wybodaeth arall yn y neges hon nad ydynt yn cyfeirio at fusnes swyddogol Cyngor Dinas a Sir Caerdydd yn cynrychioli barn y Cyngor Sir nad yn cael sel ei fendith. Caiff unrhyw negeseuon a anfonir at, neu o'r cyfeiriad e-bost hwn eu prosesu gan system E-bost Gorfforaethol Cyngor Sir Caerdydd a gallant gael eu harchwilio gan rywun heblaw'r person a enwir. ********************************************************************** -- Scanned by iCritical. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra