Calls were made for a ban on councils selling electoral roll information after it was revealed North East local authorities have made almost £80,000 from the practice.

Town halls are obliged by law to make some data available to bodies such as credit agencies.

However, a Sunday Sun probe has revealed councils have been making ‘sizeable chunks’ of cash.

Reported by the Evening Chronicle. You can read the full story here.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.