Practical fire safety guidance for existing non-residential premises: consultation

Responding to this consultation paper

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 06 March 2017. You can respond either by:

Using the online response form available on the Scottish Government consultation webpages at: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/fire-and-rescue/fire-safety-guidance-for-existing-non-residential

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by sending your response with the completed Respondent Information Form to: FireSafetyConsultation@gov.scot

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If you have any queries regarding the consultation please contact Richard Hastings on 0131 244 2388.

We would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided or clearly indicate in your response which questions or part of the document that you are responding to as this will assist in our analysis of all 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.

The Scottish Government has an email alert system for consultations, http://register.scotland.gov.uk. This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). It complements, but in no way replaces Scottish Government distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Government 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 ensure you complete and return the Respondent Information Form ( RIF) which forms part of the consultation questionnaire. 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and treat it accordingly.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.

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 on the Scottish Government consultation web pages by 03 April 2017.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process by 05 May 2017.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Richard.Hastings@gov.scot