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5 How to Respond

Please post your written responses to our questions in the Questionnaire along with the Respondent Information Form at Annex H by 28 March 2009 to:

Eileen Flanagan
Violence Against Women Team
Scottish Government

Or

E-mail your response to: vawt@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
If emailing, please also include the Respondent Information Form, which can be accessed on-line at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations (look for the consultation title among the list of 'current' consultations. The Respondent Information Form to be used for e-mail responses is located at the top of the contents page).

Or

Fill in an on-line response form on the Scottish Government website at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations (look for the consultation title among the list of 'current' consultations. The on-line form is located at the top of the contents page).

This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed on-line on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at 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 now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SG consult complements, but in no way replaces SG distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SG 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. As mentioned above, please complete and return the Respondent Information Form (see Annex H) with your response 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

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

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form - Annex H), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library by 1 May 2009 and on the Scottish Government consultation web pages by 8 May 2009. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. 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.

What happens next?

Following the close of the consultation we will examine all the views submitted carefully. We will then produce a report on the views expressed in the consultation and our decision regarding the introduction of civil legislation.

Comments and complaints

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

Yvonne Strachan
Head of the Equality Unit
Scottish Government

Or e-mail them, marked for Yvonne Strachan's attention, to: vawt@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Alternative copies

Copies of this document are available on request, in audio, large print formats and in community languages; please contact: vawt@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Extra copies

Further paper copies of this consultation can be obtained from Eileen Flanagan at the above address or telephone 0131-244 5209 and it is also available online at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations

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