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Consultation on amendments to legislation to allow lay vaccination of badgers against bovine tuberculosis

7th October 2009

Dear Consultee

Consultation on amendments to legislation to allow lay vaccination of badgers against bovine tuberculosis

I am writing to invite your views on Defra’s proposals for an exemption order to the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 to allow the vaccination of badgers against tuberculosis to be carried out by non-veterinary surgeons.

The following documents may be found on Defra’s website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/tb-badger/

  • The draft Veterinary Surgery (Vaccination of Badgers Against Tuberculosis) Order;
  • an explanatory memorandum;
  • details of the training course required to meet the conditions specified in the exemption order;
  • details of the auditing of lay vaccinators;
  • an impact assessment; and
  • list of consultees.

We welcome your views and comments on the proposals. If you wish to obtain a copy of this consultation please contact tbvaccination@defra.gsi.gov.uk. The consultation is also available in Welsh.

Responses

Please send responses to: Rory Cooney, Area 6E Millbank, c/o Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR, Tel. 020 7238 3111 or e-mail tbvaccination@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Responses must be received by Friday 8 January, 2010.

Consultation Criteria

This consultation is in line with the Code of Practice on Consultations. This can be found at  http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/bre/index.html     

  • Criterion one - When to consult

Formal consultation should take place at a stage when there is scope to influence the policy outcome.

  • Criterion two -  Duration of consultation exercises

Consultations should normally last for at least 12 weeks with consideration given to longer timescales where feasible and sensible.

  • Criterion three - Clarity of scope and impact

Consultation documents should be clear about the consultation process, what is being proposed, the scope to influence and the expected costs and benefits of the proposals.

  • Criterion four - Accessibility of consultation exercises

Consultation exercises should be designed to be accessible to, and clearly targeted at, those people the exercise is intended to reach.

  • Criterion five - The burden of consultation

Keeping the burden of consultation to a minimum is essential if consultations are to be effective and if consultees’ buy-in to the process is to be obtained.

  • Criterion six - Responsiveness of consultation exercises

Consultation responses should be analysed carefully and clear feedback should be provided to participants following the consultation.

  • Criterion seven - Capacity to consult

Officials running consultations should seek guidance in how to run an effective consultation exercise and share what they have learned from the experience.

When this consultation ends, we intend to put a copy of the responses in the Defra library at Ergon House, London; this is so the public can see them.  Also, members of the public may ask for a copy of responses under Freedom of Information legislation.

If you do not want your response - including your name, contact details and any other personal information – to be publicly available, please say so clearly in writing when you send your response to the consultation.  Please note, if your computer automatically includes a confidentiality disclaimer, that won’t count as a confidentiality request.

Please explain why you need to keep details confidential.  We will take your reasons into account if someone asks for this information under Freedom of Information legislation. But, because of the law, we cannot promise that we will always be able to keep those details confidential.

We will summarise all responses and place this summary on our website at www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/index.htm.  This summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded but not people’s personal names, addresses or other contact details. 

To see consultation responses and summaries, please contact the library at:

Defra
Information Resource Centre
Lower Ground Floor
Ergon House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

Telephone: 020-7238-6575
Email:  defra.library@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Please give the library 24 hours’ notice.  There is a charge for photocopying and postage.

If you have any comments or complaints about the consultation process, please address them to Marjorie Addo, Defra’s Consultation Co-ordinator, Area 7C Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR, or email consultation.coordinator@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Thank you for your help in this matter. If you have any queries please contact us as above.

Yours faithfully,

Rory Cooney

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Page published: 7 October 2009