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Section Seven
What happens next?
7.1 This consultation document seeks your views. All views from whatever source will be considered and evaluated. The document can be downloaded from www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations.
How to submit a response
7.2 You can respond to this consultation by letter, email or by completing an on-line form, which can be accessed at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ArtsCulture/CulturalPolicy.
7.3 If you are responding by letter or by email, please send your response to Barry Matthews at the address below. You should indicate clearly which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to. It is particularly important that you complete a Respondent Information Form (attached at Annex C and available in electronic form from the address above) so that we treat your response appropriately.
Barry Matthews
Scottish Executive
1-A North
Cultural Policy
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
E-mail culturebill@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Telephone 0131-244 0326
Fax 0131-244 0353
Closing date
7.4 The closing date for this consultation is 31 March 2007.
What happens then?
7.5 Once the closing date has been reached, all consultation responses will be considered and an analysis of responses will be published.
Handling your response
7.6 We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent InformationForm attached at Annex C as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly. We intend to publish all consultation responses which have not been marked as confidential. These will be made available at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ArtsCulture/CulturalPolicy along with further information about the consultation process and the implementation of Scotland's Culture.
7.7 All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.
Electronic publication and additional copies
7.8 This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Free phone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.
7.9 The Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). Seconsult complements, but does not seek to replace Scottish Executive distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Executive consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.
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