Member

The survey closes on 1 December. This deadline makes serious analysis impossible. The committee must report by 18 December. That gives 12 working days in the busiest period of the year to read and analyse what could be thousands of unverified, multilingual responses. The same committee has taken months to analyse witnesses in other inquiries. Now, it proposes to process a global consultation in 12 days. This is not realistic; it is not credible, and it absolutely suggests that the survey is a procedural box to be ticked rather than a genuine attempt to listen.