Work & Parents: Competitiveness and Choice

HOW TO RESPOND

Not all of the options set out in this summary can be pursued. It will be necessary for the Government to choose the action which will bring the best outcomes for parents and employers at an affordable price.

You are, therefore, asked to indicate your top three priorities and why the other options are not a priority or why they should not be pursued at all.

Please list your top three priorities:

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Why are these your greatest priorities? What are the potential costs and benefits?

Of the options you have not chosen, which have the lowest priority and why? What would be the costs of these options to you?

Are you responding as a parent, an employer, an employee representative, an employer representative, a family representative or in some other capacity?

Your response to this consultation, including your identity, may be made available in whole or in part at the Department’s discretion unless you state in the response what you wish to keep confidential. Where confidentiality is not requested, responses may be made
available to any enquirer, including enquirers outside the UK, or published by any means including on the Internet.

Would you like this response to remain confidential?

Yes
No

It would be helpful if you would provide your contact details.

Name:
Address:
Email:

 

Consultation ended on 7 March 2001.

You may also send your response by post or fax to:

Review Team
Department of Trade and Industry
1 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0ET

Fax: 020 7215 5450

Copies of the Green Paper can be purchased from The Stationery Office. Further copies of this summary are available free of charge from the DTI Publications Orderline on 0870 1502 500. The summary is also available in Welsh, large print, Braille and on audio cassette from the Orderline.

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Setting the scene | The economic context | Supporting parents around the time of a child's birth | Supporting parents in the workplace | Supporting businesses | Encouraging flexible businesses | How to respond | Annexes

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Published 7 December 2000

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