Consultation on consultations

At YouthNet, Tom Green wrote a joke post a while back - "I consult therefore I am"- motivated by a profound sense of fedupness about the amount of Government consultations. Tom speculated that the Government was in the process of conducting a consultation on consultations. Well, we all found it really funny- it actually fooled us in to thinking it was true. Imagine our relief when we discovered it was just a hoax.

Well now the Government really is conducting a consultation on consultations:

The Cabinet Office is conducting a review of Consultation Policy to see how Government consultations can be improved and is keen to hear your views. As the centre–piece of this review, Hilary Armstrong MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion, has launched a paper entitled "Effective Consultation" to seek evidence on Government consultations.

The consultation is aimed at anyone with an interest in responding to government consultation exercises, from those who regularly respond to the Government's consultations to those who might be interested in doing so. These might include business organisations, voluntary and charitable sector organisations, campaigning bodies, trades unions, citizens, etc.

If you want to be involved or read what everyone else thinks you can see here.