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Dear Stakeholder

Consultation on the role of a Scottish Futures Trust in infrastructure investment in Scotland

The enclosed consultation paper sets out the Scottish Government's thinking on the Scottish Futures Trust initiative and seeks comments on its proposals.

The paper concludes by setting out a number of questions on which we would welcome your responses. But your answer need not be confined to a response to these questions: we would also welcome any general comments you may wish to offer on the proposals contained in the paper. We would be grateful if you could clearly indicate in any general comments which parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will assist our analysis of the responses received.

Consultation

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

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

Handling your response

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 enclosed which 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

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.

What happens next?

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public ( see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library within 20 working days of the closing date and on the Scottish Government consultation web pages at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Consultations/Current shortly after. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or otherwise publishing them. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the Scottish Government library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

Completed information

We are inviting responses to this consultation paper by 14 March 2008. Please send your completed Respondent Information Form, your responses to the consultation paper questions and any general comments to: fiona.mclellan@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

or write to:
Fiona McLellan

What happens after that?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help finalise how the Government intends to proceed.

Comments and complaints

If you have any queries or comments about this consultation exercise, please contact, Sandy Rosie, Director, Financial Partnerships, Unit 3 B Bridge, Victoria Quay EH6 6QQ. Sandy.Rosie@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.

Yours faithfully

SANDY ROSIE

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