meaningless consultation: coalition-style August 18, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : consultation , add a comment From HM Treasury's website:The public is today being asked to vote to find the best ideas from over 44,000 submitted to the Treasury as part of the public engagement through the Spending Challenge website. The most promising ideas will be taken forward as part of the Spending Review process, which will set budgets for public services for the next four years.The "ideas" (which include, for example, many versions of leave the EU now) can be found (although they are not organized in any useful way) here. The registration process asks for part of a postcode so this would seem to discourage non UK citizens from rating the proposals, but the invitation to rate doesn't express any limits on whop can respond, nor does it explain how the Treasury proposes to identify the "most promising" ideas.
categorizing consultation respondents August 5, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : consultation , comments closed Respondents to the UK's new consultation on doing away with the default retirement age (somewhat ironic in a time of high unemployment but not surprising - those who have will get more in the UK in the near future - those who don't have will just have to hope) must identify themselves as belonging to one of the following categories:Business representative organisation/trade body; Central government; Charity or social enterprise; Individual; Large business ( over 250 staff); Legal representative; Local government; Medium business (50 to 250 staff); Micro business (up to 9 staff); Small business (10 to 49 staff); Trade union or staff association; Other (please describe)If I were to respond I'd be torn between replying as an individual or as an other.
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Posted by admin in : consultation , comments closedBuy cialis no prescription, If a standard-setter publishes responses to its consultative documents online, as the EU does, and the BIS has, for example on Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector and International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring, why would the writer of a response locate the same document on its own web pages behind its membership wall. The Loan Market Association's comments are available for all to view on the BIS website, cheap cialis, Buy cialis c.o.d., and from the EU Commission's consultation pages, but its own website states:
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In fact, comprar cialis de descuento, Order cialis, the content of the responses is visible in the LMA press release. And in any case, acheter cialis, Cialis for sale, it's not as if there's anything very surprising in the LMA's comments, except perhaps that the comments to both bodies are basically the same, Rhode Island RI R.I. , Cheap cialis online legally, including this paragraph which seems more appropriately directed to a regional body like the Commission than to a global body like the BIS (though given the US attitude to implementation of Basel II perhaps not):
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Posted by Bradley in : consultation , comments closed The EU's consultation on information sharing Buy levitra online cheap, between the EU and the US, which purports to invite responses from stakeholders, including the "general public" doesn't really seemed geared to generating responses from the public at large. It's full of jargon and probably only makes sense to people who know quite a lot about the subject matter already (although the consultation page does provide links to relevant documents):
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Posted by Bradley in : consultation , comments closedBuy soma no prescription, The UK Treasury, facing a lack of bank lending to UK corporates is trying to figure out how to encourage non-bank lending in a Discussion Paper published today. There's less non-bank lending to UK corporates than to US corporates, North Dakota ND , Where to buy soma, and the paper suggests this may be linked to lower levels of rated corporates in the UK than in the US:
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Posted by Bradley in : consultation , comments closedAricept over the counter, In an unusual move, the UK Department of Business, Information and Skills has published a press release relating to the credit card consultation which states:
PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today on the future of the credit card market. Arizona AZ Ariz. , Commenting on the report, a Department for Business spokesperson said:
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The report in question is the latest Precious Plastic Report (the BIS doesn't make it easy to find - not even citing the report by its title), so it's not exactly directed at the current consultation, although it is clearly written in a context where the regulation of credit cards is an issue, aricept over the counter. The report does suggest that regulation (in the US as well as the UK) may have negative impacts on the credit card market, New Jersey NJ N.J. . αγοράσετε aricept, But I think that credit card companies have taken advantage of their customers and of their customers' vulnerabilities on both sides of the Atlantic in ways that are unethical and some of which ought to be illegal. And if I were writing the latest in a series of reports on the credit card market I'd feel obliged to notice that the political calculus with respect to financial regulation generally and with respect to consumer issues particularly has changed recently, Missouri MO Mo. . Vermont VT Vt. , So, isn't the BIS over-reacting, order aricept online. Order aricept cod, And will the over-reaction be counter-productive. Farmacia aricept baratos. Alabama AL Ala. . Buy aricept. För aricept online. Order aricept online cheap. Aricept without a prescription. Buy aricept no prescription. Order aricept online without prescription. Buy aricept cheap. Aricept sale. Maryland MD Md. . Kjøp Discount aricept. Aricept pills. New Mexico NM N.Mex. .
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