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Living in Germany, I can state that the costs are very low: 10 EUR for a DVD/CD/other media are the typical ballpark. You are essentially just paying a fee for an administrative assistant to pull your files and give them to you.

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Same in UK. There is a fee but it's like £20, it's minimal.

£20 is not a minimal fee (meaning, would pay without a second thought) for most people in the UK.

What makes you think so?

Perhaps the fact that some need to use food banks or even disconnect from electricity providers

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/15/watchdog-urg...

Sure, of course those people exist. I mean specifically what makes you say that for "most" of people in the UK £20 is not a minimal expense.

Imagine I have a heart attack. I do an ECG, some CT, X-RAY, MRI. Suddenly its £200 just for the DVDs.

Really? Where did you get that quote? That's not how it's meant to work, not with NHS anyway. When I did that recently I rang my GP surgery, and they got EVERYTHING from my medical history. You don't pay £20 per result - it's £20 to get hundreds of pages of medical history(if you have that much) all at once.

This thread is a good example of a law of internet communication: when different people are responding consecutively to a single person in a thread, each person will subtly change the subject and misunderstand the foregoing argument, so the end of the thread will be discussing a completely different topic than the beginning.

Do you get paper copies or PDFs?

They sent me an email with a link to an encrypted archive with everything in it.

This is out of date information. The fee was scrapped. The fee should only be charged where the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

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