2.19 In addition to the costs of implementing standard requirements, departments with sector-specific transparency commitments incur additional costs. Examples include:
• the National Policing Improvement Agency produced street-level crime maps at a cost of £300,000 and estimates the annual running costs for hosting, supporting and maintaining the crime map site at more than £150,000.7 The Agency has budgeted £216,000 in 2011-12 to further develop the website, including linking crime data to police and justice outcomes; and
• the Department for International Development estimates that to deliver the commitment to provide full information on international development projects with a value of more than £500 by January 2011, it incurred capital costs of £250,000, administrative set-up costs of £156,000 and has ongoing annual running costs of £64,000.
2.20 While the above examples incurred relatively modest additional costs to make existing information more publicly available, greater costs would be associated with substantially developing new systems to provide public information where there are currently gaps. The case examples in Part Three illustrate that in many sectors existing information does not currently support individual choice or promote accountability.