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173831

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Ordnance Survey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether Ordnance Survey is conducting aerial photography of the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr James Arbuthnot
	uin	220720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Ordnance Survey captures aerial photography every year and uses this imagery to update the OS MasterMap® of Great Britain in order to fulfil its obligations under its Public Task. In addition, Ordnance Survey makes the aerial photography available as a product for its customers’ use in the Government, Business and Consumer markets; this is called OS MasterMap® Imagery Layer.</p><p> </p><p>Ordnance Survey has been acquiring aerial imagery since the 1930s and established its own Flying Unit in 1966.</p><p> </p><p>Ordnance Survey captures imagery in order to meet its commitments to maintain the currency of its mapping data as laid before Parliament in its annual Agency Performance Monitors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/01/2015 15:11:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

174654

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Aerial Photography
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to replace the Ordnance Survey's aerial photography programme with the licensing of such photographs from other agencies and businesses; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr James Arbuthnot
	uin	221333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Ordnance Survey is an independent, non-ministerial government department with Executive Agency status operating as a Trading Fund under the Ordnance Survey Trading Fund Order 1999. As such, Ordnance Survey has delegated authority the make the decisions necessary to fulfil its Public Task.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An open procurement process is currently underway for a new contract to fulfil Ordnance Survey’s remote sensing requirements. Ordnance Survey requires ownership of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the aerial imagery for various reasons, including the ability to use the deliverables on an unrestricted basis and the need to be able to deliver changing Crown policy requirements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 14:18:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 40008 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

174659

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Aerial Photography
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost was of the Ordnance Survey's aerial photography programme in each of the last five years; and if he will make an estimate of the potential annual cost of licensing such photographs from other agencies and businesses.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr James Arbuthnot
	uin	221332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The costs for Ordnance Survey’s aerial photography programme in each of the last five years are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2010/11 - £3.36m</p><p> </p><p>2011/12 - £2.05m</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 - £1.63m</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 - £1.96m</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 - £1.97m</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These costs include capture of the imagery and it’s processing to create ortho-imagery, which is used to update the Master Map of Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As explained in the response to Question UIN 221333, Ordnance Survey requires full ownership of the Intellectual Property Rights of the aerial photography it acquires. Ordnance Survey considered all options and decided to procure full rights to the data it required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 14:19:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 40007 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom