One fairly common accusation levelled at consultors in the media and in court is that of pre-determination. “The decision was already made!” campaigners will cry. We saw an example of this last week in this story where a change to the public sector pay exit cap drew threats of a legal challenge on the grounds […]
Pre-determination and pre-emption: making changes before a consultation Read More »
The Institute has responded to the Government’s consultation on Planning for the Future in England. It supports a Government commitment that new arrangements for creating local plans will ensure that ‘communities can engage meaningfully in the process of developing them.’ New local plans will be much simpler than currently, and will be easier for residents
English planning reforms reduces residents’ rights to be consulted! Read More »
We’ll be having a fairly short WIP this week. Not because of any particular aversion to work on my part, but because the chambers across the UK have simply not been providing me with the material. I’m raring to go. That being said, I haven’t helped myself by splitting off the near-weekly update on the
The Week in Parliament Read More »
We’ve been writing for weeks about the controversial United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, following its passage through Parliament and highlighting our own concerns about the consultation behind it. Rather than just doing another update in the Week in Parliament, we thought we’d update you on how and why we’re pursuing this one a little further.
Institute FOI on the UK Internal Market Bill Consultation Read More »
Will Big Oil face the same legal challenges as Big Tobacco? A recent Special Report in The Economist had a section heading called ‘Courtrooms are the new battleground for climate activism’. It chronicles the growth in litigation against oil companies and others as campaigners raise the stakes and the climate change debate matures, especially in
Consultation and the resurgence of evidence Read More »
Apart from monitoring the goings-on in the Commons Chamber itself, we also do our best to keep an eye on happenings in legislative committee rooms throughout the UK. It’s not always an easy thing to do- there are many committees to watch, and much of it is not relevant to us, but occasionally we’ll strike
Participation and power – does your voice count? Read More »
Westminster It’s finally here, the UK Internal Market Bill has had its first outing in the House of Lords, and it went just about as well as you’d expect. Moving the Bill, Lord Callanan tried to head off some of the criticism. Particularly of interest to us, he highlighted that the Bill had been consulted
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One of the challenges of planning a process of making decisions about health services that involve a public consultation is that the consultation tends to take centre stage. Perceptions about how long a consultation should last, can dominate, leaving little time in a programme timetable for the important work of preparing for a consultation and
Decisions, decisions. Making time to get them right Read More »
How consultation has to cover the macro and the micro An increasing challenge for consultors is creating narratives that span the divide between the wider context ‘big picture’ and the here-and-now local dimensions upon which we often consult. Right now, we have two excellent examples. Climate science tells us that restraining global warming to 2°C is essential
This week, the Government announced the new system for the identification and implementation of coronavirus restrictions. The system is designed to streamline and simplify regulations and to make it easy for individuals to know which rules apply. Broadly speaking, the system works as follows: ‘Tier 1- Medium’ where the rule of six applies indoors and
The three tiers – A simplified system, but questions remain about consultation Read More »
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