Consumer Scotland - energy, post and water - draft workplan 2022 to 2023: consultation

9. Responding to this Consultation

We are inviting responses to this consultation by 4 March 2022.

This consultation is being conducted by the Board-designate of Consumer Scotland, prior to the organisation formally coming into existence. We are therefore using the Citizen Space site to publish the consultation.

Please respond to this consultation using Citizen Space. Access and respond to this consultation online. You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of 4 March 2022.

If you are unable to respond online using our consultation hub, please complete the Respondent Information Form and send to:

Handling your response

If you respond using the consultation hub, you will be directed to the About You page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.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 Government is 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.

If you are unable to respond via Citizen Space, please complete and return the Respondent Information Form included in this document below.

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at Scottish Government consultations. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so. An analysis report will also be made available.

Comments and Complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to the contact address above or CSSecretariat@gov.scot

Consultation process

Consultation gives us the opportunity to consider your opinion and expertise on a proposed area of work.

Responses will be analysed and used as part of the decision making process, along with a range of other available information and evidence.