APCI Consultation Exercise

On 31 October 2003, Professor Castles, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Country Information, wrote to fifty individuals and organisations inviting their comments on the Home Office's Country Reports published in October 2003. The consultation exercise ran from 1 November to 31 December 2003.

This process generated some very useful comments and the Advisory Panel is very grateful to those who responded.

Country Information and Policy Unit (CIPU) of the Home Office considered the comments received from the consultation exercise and provided a report to the Advisory Panel at its 2nd meeting on 2 March 2004. The report provides details of comments received, together with CIPU's response to these. As part of this process, CIPU also considered issues raised by the Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) in its report about the April 2003 Country Report, Home Office Country Assessments: An Analysis, published in September 2003.

CIPU's report, together with copies of those consultation responses submitted in electronic format, may be found with the papers of the 2nd meeting 2 March 2004.

At present, there are no plans to undertake any further formal consultation, but the Advisory Panel always welcomes comments on the Home Office's Country Reports and Country Information Bulletins. These should be submitted to the email and postal addresses below:

Email: APCI@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Postal address:
APCI
PO Box 1539
CROYDON
CR9 3WR