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Dear Angela Smith,

I was pleased to see that the cabinet office has published a report
that proposes “monthly crime information should
be published to include … details of crimes committed”. [1]

Could you tell me what format these statistics will take, more
specifically if they will be in a format that members of the public can
easily use.

I really hope that this information is published in an open, and free
format such as XML, or even just plain CSV, publishing the data in a
closed, proprietary form such as a PDF file would not encourage the
re-publication of that data in a form that is easier for more people to
understand.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7460134.stm

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Grimshaw