CONSULTATION RESPONSE FORM National Development Framework: Issues, Options and Preferred Option This consultation seeks your views on the emerging National Development Framework (NDF). The NDF will not be published in draft form until 2019 but the issues it should address, the Vision, the objectives and the Preferred Option for achieving these are set out in this consultation. These will shape how the NDF is prepared. If you have any queries on this consultation, please email: or telephone 0300 025 3261. Data Protection The Welsh Government will be data controller for any personal data you provide as part of your response to the consultation. Welsh Ministers have statutory powers they will rely on to process this personal data which will enable them to make informed decisions about how they exercise their public functions. Any response you send us will be seen in full by Welsh Government staff dealing with the issues which this consultation is about or planning future consultations. In order to show that the consultation was carried out properly, the Welsh Government intends to publish a summary of the responses to this document. We may also publish responses in full. Normally, the name and address (or part of the address) of the person or organisation who sent the response are published with the response. If you do not want your name or address published, please tell us this in writing when you send your response. We will then redact them before publishing. . Names or addresses we redact might still get published later, though we do not think this would happen very often. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 allow the public to ask to see information held by many public bodies, including the Welsh Government. This includes information which has not been published. However, the law also allows us to withhold information in some circumstances. If anyone asks to see information we have withheld, we will have to decide whether to release it or not. If someone has asked for their name and address not to be published, that is an important fact we would take into account. However, there might sometimes be important reasons why we would have to name and address, even though they have asked for them reveal someone’s not to be published. We would get in touch with the person and ask their views before we finally decided to reveal the information. Your data will be kept for no more than three years. Under the data protection legislation, you have the right: to access the personal data the Welsh Government holds on you; • to require us to rectify inaccuracies in that data •
CONSULTATION RESPONSE FORM National Development Framework: Issues, Options and Preferred Option This consultation seeks your views on the emerging National Development Framework (NDF). The NDF will not be published in draft form until 2019 but the issues it should address, the Vision, the objectives and the Preferred Option for achieving these are set out in this consultation. These will shape how the NDF is prepared. If you have any queries on this consultation, please email: or telephone 0300 025 3261. Data Protection The Welsh Government will be data controller for any personal data you provide as part of your response to the consultation. Welsh Ministers have statutory powers they will rely on to process this personal data which will enable them to make informed decisions about how they exercise their public functions. Any response you send us will be seen in full by Welsh Government staff dealing with the issues which this consultation is about or planning future consultations. In order to show that the consultation was carried out properly, the Welsh Government intends to publish a summary of the responses to this document. We may also publish responses in full. Normally, the name and address (or part of the address) of the person or organisation who sent the response are published with the response. If you do not want your name or address published, please tell us this in writing when you send your response. We will then redact them before publishing. . Names or addresses we redact might still get published later, though we do not think this would happen very often. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 allow the public to ask to see information held by many public bodies, including the Welsh Government. This includes information which has not been published. However, the law also allows us to withhold information in some circumstances. If anyone asks to see information we have withheld, we will have to decide whether to release it or not. If someone has asked for their name and address not to be published, that is an important fact we would take into account. However, there might sometimes be important reasons why we would have to reveal someone’s name and address, even though they have asked for them not to be published. We would get in touch with the person and ask their views before we finally decided to reveal the information. Your data will be kept for no more than three years. Under the data protection legislation, you have the right: • to access the personal data the Welsh Government holds on you; • to require us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
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