The Scottish Government

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ANNEXES

Contents

Annex A Respondent Information Form

Annex B The Scottish Executive consultation process

Annex C List of consultees

RESPONDENT INFORMATION FORM

ABOLITION OF THE GRADUATE ENDOWMENT FEE

Please complete the details below and return it with your response. This will help ensure we handle your response appropriately. Thank you for your help.

Name:

Postal Address:

1. Are you responding: (please tick one line)

(a) as an individual _ go to Q2a/b and then Q4

(b) on behalf of a group/organisation _ go to Q3 and then Q4

INDIVIDUALS

2a. Do you agree to your response being made available to the public (in the Scottish Executive library and/or on the Scottish Executive website)?

Yes (go to 2b below) _

No, not at all _ we will treat your response as confidential

2b. Where confidentiality is not requested, we will make your response available to the public on the following basis ( please tick one of the following boxes)

Yes, make my response, name and address all available _

Yes, make my response available, but not my name or address _

Yes, make my response and name available, but not my address _

ON BEHALF OF GROUPS OR ORGANISATIONS:

3 The name and address of your organisation will be made available to the public (in the Scottish Executive library and/or on the Scottish Executive website). Are you also content for your response to be made available?

Yes _

No _ We will treat your response as confidential

SHARING RESPONSES/FUTURE ENGAGEMENT

4 We will share your response internally with other Scottish Executive policy teams who may be addressing the issues you discuss. They may wish to contact you again in the future, but we require your permission to do so. Are you content for the Scottish Executive to contact you again in the future in relation to this consultation response?

Yes _

No _

THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE CONSULTATION PROCESS

27. Consultation is an essential and important aspect of Scottish Executive working methods. Given the wide-ranging areas of work of the Scottish Executive, there are many varied types of consultation. However, in general, Scottish Executive consultation exercises aim to provide opportunities for all those who wish to express their opinions on a proposed area of work to do so in ways which will inform and enhance that work.

28. The Scottish Executive encourages consultation that is thorough, effective and appropriate to the issue under consideration and the nature of the target audience. Consultation exercises take account of a wide range of factors, and no two exercises are likely to be the same.

29. Typically Scottish Executive consultations involve a written paper inviting answers to specific questions or more general views about the material presented. Written papers are distributed to organisations and individuals with an interest in the issue, and they are also placed on the Scottish Executive web site enabling a wider audience to access the paper and submit their responses. Consultation exercises may also involve seeking views in a number of different ways, such as through public meetings, focus groups or questionnaire exercises. Copies of all the written responses received to a consultation exercise (except those where the individual or organisation requested confidentiality) are placed in the Scottish Executive library at Saughton House, Edinburgh (K Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD, telephone 0131 244 4565).

30. All Scottish Executive consultation papers and related publications (e.g., analysis of response reports) can be accessed at: Scottish Executive consultations (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations).

31. The views and suggestions detailed in consultation responses are analysed and used as part of the decision making process, along with a range of other available information and evidence. Depending on the nature of the consultation exercise the responses received may:

· indicate the need for policy development or review

· inform the development of a particular policy

· help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals

· be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented

32. Final decisions on the issues under consideration will also take account of a range of other factors, including other available information and research evidence.

33. While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body.

LIST OF CONSULTEES

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