Postcode Address File (PAF) should have been kept as open data for government, says committee MPs and open data advocates have attacked the government’s selloff of postcode data in the privatisation ...

The Government has been slammed for selling a valuable database of every British postcode and address in last year's flotation of the Royal Mail. Ministers were strongly criticised for including the ...

The Commons Public Administration Committee says the Postcode Address File should have been retained as a “national asset” freely available to all for the widest benefit of the economy The Royal Mail ...

The organisation that was given £10m government funding to increase the use of open data across the public sector has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Government has been slammed for selling a valuable database of every British postcode and address in last year's flotation of ...