(31 May 2022, 9:30 am)Michael wrote The consultation on proposed service changes finishes today.
Get your views in... wonder how long it'll be before we find out whats happening?
I don't think we'll hear anything for at least a few weeks. If they're outsourcing the analysis of the consultation, I doubt they'd even know themselves what the feedback is for at least a week.
Someone actually has to sit and read through all the responses and do a thematic analysis on it (basically pulling out all the 'important' points), which is surprisingly time consuming. Depending on how many responses they get, it could easily be a few days work. They will then have to go through all the important points that were pulled out, and see what themes are standing out. Depending on how many responses they get, this step alone could probably take a full day.
At this point, what we would normally do is tidy it up a bit and give the preliminary findings to the client.
We would then begin actually writing the report, depending on what the client has asked (and paid) for, it could take anywhere from a couple days to a week. Some ask for everything to be written out with quotes everywhere, others are fine with tables.
Looking at the GNE consultation, I'd say it'd probably be a fairly easy job to do since it's essentially one question. I would obviously break down the analysis per route, and then probably break it down into positive and negative sentiments.
From experience on similar consultations (albeit in a different industry), I'd guess most of the responses will be negative, with most of those responses just being along the lines of "Don't do it" with no information on how it will affect them.