§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment in what circumstances it is his Department's practice, when issuing a public consultation document, to inform those consulted that their responses will be made public unless they explicitly ask for them to. be kept confidential; and if he will arrange for his Department to do so in all cases in future.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythWhere comments are sought in consultation exercises, it is already the Department's usual practice to make clear that they are sought on the understanding that they can be made publicly available unless respondents have requested that their remarks be treated as confidential.