Dr. Tony WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the public consultation exercises on policy matters carried out by his Department and its agencies in each of the last five years; who was consulted and by what means; how responses were analysed; how and in what form the results were transmitted to those responsible for the consultation; how the results of the consultation were published; and what analysis has been carried out of the extent and nature of policy changes resulting from the consultation. [106302]
§ Mr. WicksFull information in the form requested is not available. Details of the public exercises listed on our consultations calendar for 1999 are as follows. I will write to my hon. Friend giving as full a reply as possible by the156W end of February. My Department has now set up a central Consultation Unit to advise on best practice in public policy consultations.
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- Access Funds: Proposed Changes to Guidance
- Admission Arrangements for September 2001
- Adult Basic Skills Standards
- Adventure Activities Licensing Scheme
- Allocation Method for the Careers Service Budget
- Annual Capital Round 2000–2001
- Arrangements for Revised Criteria and Re-Recognition of National Training Organisations
- Assessment Orders—Key State 1–3
- Asset Management Plans
- Asset Management Plans—Section 4
- Asset Management Plans—Sufficiency
- Asset Management Plans—Options Appraisals
- Bringing Young People Back to School
- Budget Statements and Guidance
- Capacity Assessment Methods
- Categories of Fees
- Considering School Organisation Proposals—Changes in Arrangements
- Control of Premises
- Development of Value Added Measures for Performance Tables
- Devolution of Surplus Places—Draft Regulations
- DfEE/Employment Service Annual Performance Agreement
- Disability Rights Task Force Recommendations on Schools—Implementation
- Education (Adjudicators Procedure) Regulations 1999
- Education (GM and GM Special Schools) Capital Grants Regulations 1999
- Education (Non-Maintained Special School—England) Regulations 1999
- Education (Schedule 32 of the School Standards Framework) Regulations 1999
- Education (School Government England) Regulations 1999
- Education (Student Fees) (Exceptions) Regulations 1999 and accompanying guidance
- Education Act 1996: Local decision making on school organisations
- Education of Children Looked After by Local Authorities—Draft Guidance
- Education National Curriculum Attainment Targets and Programme of Study in England 1999
- Employment Zones
- Equal Opportunities (Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Act)—Green Paper
- European Social Fund 2000–2006 Objective 3 Community Support Framework
- Exclusions Panels—LEA Guidance
- Extending the Widening Participation Factor for 1999–2000
- Financing of Maintained Schools—Regulations
- Foundation Body Regulations under s21 of the School Standards and Framework Act
- General Teaching Council for England, The—A Register of Teachers
- General Teaching Council Regulations 1999—Draft Composition
- Hardship Loans and Access Funds to Determine Optimum Use of Funding to Increase Access for HE Students and to Support Students Facing Financial Hardships
- Harmonised Framework for Inspection, Quality Assurance and Performance Indicators Across Schools, FE and Private Training Providers
- Individualised Student Record: Consultation on Proposed Changes to 2000–01 Specification
- Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers—Draft Regulations
- Information for Parents About Home Education
- Investors in People
- Learning Information Networks
- Learning to Succeed School Sixth Form Funding
- Learning to Succeed: A New Framework for Post 16 Learning—White Paper
- LEAs—Electronic Version of the Standard Fund Grant Application Form
- LEAs—Good Practice in Relation to Resolving Disputes with Parents—Draft Guidance
- LEA Responsibility Towards Pupils Being Educated at Home by Their Parents
- Local Assisted Places Scheme
- Local Information, Advice and Guidance for Adults in England—Towards a National Framework
- Local and National Arrangements for Lifelong Learning, Skills and Workforce Development
- Local Publication of 1999 Primary School (Key Stage 2) Performance Tables
- Mandatory Awards Regulations (Education Act 1962)
- Nanny Agencies—Draft Code of Practice
- National Curriculum in England
- National Curriculum—Legal Language in Orders
- National Curriculum—Draft Proposals for New Orders
- National Professional Qualification for Head Teachers
- Networking Lifelong Learning: An Information and Learning Technology Development Strategy for Further Education
- New Arrangements Governing the Basis on Which Governing Bodies and LEAs Meet Specified Costs of Building Work at Voluntary Aided Schools
- New Opportunities Fund: Community Access to Lifelong Learning
- New Opportunities Fund: Funding for Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities
- New Schools (England)—Draft Regulations
- Nursery Education: Desirable Outcomes for Children's Learning on Entering Compulsory Education
- Nutritional Standards—Draft Regulations
- Organisation of School Places—Guidance
- Parent Governor Representation on Local Education Committees
- Policy Action Teams for Jobs
- Post 16 Structures for Learning and Workforce Development—Requests for Oral Evidence
- Pupil Restraint in Special Education Needs Settings—Draft Guidance
- Qualifying for Success: Changes to the Post 16 Curriculum: A Guide for Parents
- Registration and Monitoring Arrangements for Independent Schools
- Report of Research by National Children's Bureau on Good Practice in Special Educational Needs Parent Partnership and Research Brief
- School Admission Appeals Code of Practice
- School Governance (Terms of Reference) Regulations 1999—Draft Guidance
- School Lunches for Primary School Pupils
- School Lunches for Secondary School Pupils
- School Lunches for Under Fives
- School Meals Staff Regulations—The Next Steps
- School Organisation Committees and Draft Education (School Organisation Committees) Regulations 1999
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- School Organisation Proposals (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1999
- School Reorganisation—Transitional Regulations 1998
- School Target Setting in 1999 and Beyond
- Schools Admission Appeals Code of Practice
- School Capital Strategy
- Schools Capital: Discussion on the Possible Shape of Allocation Arrangements for 2000–2001
- Schools Causing Concerns
- Secondary Schools and Colleges Performance Tables
- Special Educational Needs Code of Practice
- Special Educational Needs Tribunal Regulations
- Sex Equality Green Paper
- Social Exclusion Unit Report Bridging the Gap—Youth Support Service
- Social Inclusion—Pupil Support
- Special Schools—Draft Circular
- Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 and the Teaching and Further Education Act 1998—Implications for Colleges in the Further Education Sector
- Staff Individualised Record: Proposed Changes to the 1999–2000 Specification
- Standards Fund
- Strategic Planning 2000 and Beyond
- Student Loans Repayment Regulations 1999
- Student Support Regulations 1999/2000
- Suitability and Sufficiency Assessment
- Supported Employment Programme, The—Employment Service
- Tackling Truancy Together (Strategy Document)
- Teachers and Headteacher Appraisal Regulations 1999—Draft
- Teachers Meeting the Challenge of Change
- Teachers Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions Arrangements
- Teachers Pensions Regulations—Compensation for Redundancy and Early Retirement
- Teachers Research Scholarship Programme—Round 1 and 2
- Teachers: Taking Forward the Challenge of Change
- Test Dates for 2002
- Transitional Grants 1999–2000
- Welsh Language Scheme.