§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish his Department's collation and assessment of responses to each of the Government's public consultations. [69774]
§ Mr. SpellarI assume that my hon. Friend is referring to public consultation conducted only by the Ministry of Defence. No single collation and assessment of all public consultation conducted by the Ministry of Defence exists. Our largest public consultation exercise to date was that conducted to inform the Strategic Defence Review. Where consent was given by the authors, copies of submissions made to the Ministry of Defence in the course of that exercise have been placed in the Library of the House. The assessment of those submissions formed part of the Strategic Defence Review, the recommendations of which were reported to Parliament on 8 July 1998,Official Report, columns 1073–96.