The Financial Services Authority has today issued its publication scheme under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This can be found on our website at www.fsa.gov.uk/foi/ . We are also releasing Policy Statement 04/4 (The FSA's approach to implementing the Freedom of Information Act 2000) which sets out our final policy on operating our publication scheme following the publication of our draft scheme in October 2003 in Discussion Paper 23: The FSA's approach to implementing the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Scheme, as required by the FOIA, sets out: * the types of information the FSA will publish (classes of information); * the way in which the information will be published; and * whether or not we will charge for providing published information. The Scheme, which has been approved by the Information Commissioner, will be of particular interest to authorised firms, approved persons, trade associations, consumers and the media as well as others who are interested in the FSA's work. The FSA's general approach to implementing the FOI Act is to use this opportunity to enhance our existing accountability by disclosing more information. We have reviewed the types of information we hold and carried out a survey of the kinds of requests for information we currently receive. As a result we have decided to publish further information on particular issues.   

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