According to the survey, 7.4 million households reported an unauthorized charge on a credit card account.

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Open Data campaigners claim that ministers are keener than they should be to listen to managers at the Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry and the Met Office who want to charge for their data rather than make it free.

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Over half of survey respondents did not know whether Ieuan Wyn Jones was doing a good job in charge of Plaid.

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The survey, published earlier this month, showed 6% felt there should be a charge when the service attended a fire within an occupied building.

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According to a survey for London First, a business organisation, 59% of firms term the charge's impact on London's economy as positive or neutral, compared with 26% who say it has been negative.

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According to a 2005 credit card survey by Consumer Action, a nonprofit organization focused on consumer education and advocacy, most issuers charge 2 to 3 percent, which includes the Visa or Mastercard charge.

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