§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security is she will make it her practice to inform those invited to respond to departmental consultative papers that their responses may be placed in the public domain unless they request that their responses be kept confidential. [15958]
§ Mr. FieldIt is already existing practice to do so in line with the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. However, because of an oversight this was not done in the case of the public consultation exercise on the Pensions Review.