Whitehall's new Consultation principles – First reactions to the slimline replacement for the HM Government Code of Practice (2008)

This is the fourth attempt (over 13 years) to prescribe a set of rules for Government departments and other public bodies to conduct public and stakeholder consultations. And in many ways it is the most interesting, for it needs to cope with a very different world, and meet the admirable goal of being more succinct, less bureaucratic and generally more practical than its predecessors.