COVERING LETTER
19 May 2008
Dear Consultee
CONSULTATION ON FIRE CONTROL RESILIENCE
Responding to this consultation paper
We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Friday 8 August 2008.
Please send your response to:
Resilienceoffirecontrols@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Fire Control Resilience Consultation Team
Area 1-R
St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
If you have any queries, you can contact me, Neil MacLennan, on 0131-244-5339.
We would be grateful if you could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses
received.
This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.
The Scottish Government has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces SG distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SG consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.
Handling your response
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 Information Form attached to this letter 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive are 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.
Next steps in the process
Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library and on the Scottish Government consultation web pages by by 1 September 2008. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.
What happens next ?
Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a view on standards of control room resilience. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process by 1 September 2008, following which we will meet with key stakeholders to agree a process for taking this work forward.
Comments and complaints
If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to: Ian Walford, Head of Scottish Resilience at the above address.
Yours faithfully
Neil MacLennan
Scottish Resilience
neil.maclennan@scotland.gsi.gov.uk