HC Deb 25 January 1999 vol 324 cc84-5W
Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 18 January 1999,Official Report, column 351, if he will list the 27 consultation documents issued by his Department in 1998 for which a response time of 10 weeks or more was given. [67579]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The consultation documents and response times were as follows:

Month Consultation Document Response Time
Locally agreed syllabuses for religious education: Draft order 15 weeks
Targets for reducing exclusion and unauthorised absence 10 weeks
New requirements to make goods and facilities and services more accessible to disabled people 10 weeks
October Ingredients for success: a consultation paper on nutritional standards for school lunches 12 weeks
Draft regulations under Section 494 of the Education Act 1996 10 weeks
School and business—Sustaining partnerships 10 weeks
December Draft regulations on the statutory arrangements for induction 10 weeks
Teachers: Meetings the challenge of change (green paper) + summary and questionnaire 16 weeks