The Stationery Office
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The Stationery Office (TSO) is a British publishing company created in 1996 when the publishing arm of Her Majesty's Stationery Office was privatised.<ref name="Harrington 2006">Template:Cite news</ref> It is the official publisher and the distributor for legislation, command and house papers, select committee reports, Hansard, and the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, the UK government's three official journals of record.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With more than 9,000 titles in print and digital formats published every year, it is one of the UK's largest publishers by volume.<ref name=WhoAreWe>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
TSO provides services, consultancy, and infrastructure to deliver all aspects of the information lifecycle. TSO developed the website legislation.gov.uk with The National Archives, providing full access to the statute book as open data.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
The Stationery Office was sold for £54 million when it was privatised in 1996.<ref name="Ind 1999">Template:Cite news</ref> Two thirds of TSO was purchased by Electra Fleming,<ref name="Harrison 1999">Template:Cite news</ref> an investment trust co-owned by Electra Investment and the investment bank Robert Fleming & Company.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Three executives of TSO purchased large stakes in the business: Rupert Pennant-Rea purchased a 4.5 per cent stake, Bob Thian a 6 per cent stake, and Richard Martin 3 per cent stake.<ref name="Harrison 1999" />
In 1999, Electra Fleming sold TSO to its existing management team and Apax, a private equity firm,<ref name="Harrington 2006" /> for £82 million.<ref name="Ind 1999" /> Rupert Pennant-Rea remained as chairman, and Fred Perkins stayed as chief executive.<ref name="Ind 1999" /> TSO was sold in 2006 to business process outsourcing company Williams Lea, of which a majority stake had been acquired by logistics company Deutsche Post earlier that year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
The TSO OpenUp platform was a collection of integrated services available as software as a service (SaaS), with the aim of providing a scalable and resilient platform that allows organisations to store, query, and enrich their data.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Open University academic Tony Hirst won the 2011 OpenUp contest for his ideas about the use of UCAS data.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hirst was chosen by a judging panel headed up by TSO director of digital products Robin Brattel, and included artificial intelligence expert Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt and Open University director of communications Lucian J Hudson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2014, TSO also began working with the local government sector, beginning with the redevelopment of the Croydon Council internal and external websites.Template:Citation needed