Workshop on examples of  correspondence with Government:

Creating an archive of common responses from the government and politicians.

GENERAL POINTS ABOUT LETTERS TO OFFICIALS AND THEIR REPLIES

Ministers and post-holders often move on as soon as activists have built up a good relationship with them.  

We have an extensive list of replies from officials – and MPs – over several years, but we need to find some way of classifying them by topic and also by type.  These variations can be identified. 

• Points raised by activist but ignored in reply. 
• Points raised by activists answered evasively. 
• Additional, and often irrelevant points raised by respondent (not raised in activist's letter). 
• 'Genuine' points made by respondent, to which activist can counter-argue. 
• Points which are simply untrue or misguided.