To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 20 November 2007, Official Report, column 682W, on departmental public consultations, if he will place copies in the Library of the (a) summary and (b) full findings of each such internal survey undertaken since 1 March 2007. (180457)

The Department’s annual People Survey is an extensive survey and covers all staff. Reports of these annual surveys from 2005 and 2006 are available in the Library and the civil service website at:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/iam/staff_surveys.asp

A report on the 2007 annual survey, carried out in December 2007, will be published in due course.

In the run-up to the annual survey the Department conducted short internal surveys of a small sample of staff. These surveys were purely for internal management purposes only and are not for publication.