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What is a publication scheme?

What a publication scheme is and why it has been developed

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) gives rights of public access to information held by public authorities. Section 19 of the FOIA requires every public authority to adopt and maintain a publication scheme which has been approved by the Information Commissioner, and to publish information in accordance with the scheme.

The Authority has adopted the Model Publication Scheme approved by the Information Commissioner. It is valid from 1 January 2009. To facilitate compilation of our scheme we have used the definition document for Joint Authorities and Boards.

All of the information contained in our publication scheme is either available for you on our website or in traditional document form on request.

Classes of information published by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority

The publication scheme guides you to information which we currently publish or which we will publish in the future.