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ANNEX C

1. We would be grateful if you could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper that you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

2. This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where the nearest public internet access point is.

3. The Scottish Government now has an e-mail alert system for consultations, SEconsult http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. This system allows stakeholders, individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly e-mail containing details of all new Scottish Government consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces, SE distribution lists and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Government consultations activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.

Handling your response

4. We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form (as at Annex D of the consultation paper) as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

5. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

6. Where respondents have given permission for their responses to be made public (see the Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government library by the end of March 2008. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the Scottish Government Library on 0131 244 4556. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next

7. Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process in March 2008.

Comments and complaints

8. If you have comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted please send them to:

Ian Alexander
The Scottish Government

Ian.Alexander@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.

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