How we make decisions
Decision making processes and records of decisions
Major policy proposals and decisions:
Information that can be made available to the public without
damaging international relations or internal policy
development:
Background information
relating to major policy proposals and decisions: This
will include facts, and analyses of facts, relevant and important
to the framing of major policy proposals and decisions:
Public consultations: Details of consultation
exercises with access to the consultation papers or information
about where the papers can be obtained. The results of consultation
exercises:
Minutes of senior level
meetings We would expect management board minutes and the
minutes of similar meetings where decisions are made about the
provision of services, excluding material that is properly
considered to be private, to be readily available to the
public.
Reports and papers provided
for consideration at senior level meetings: Information
presented to those at meetings making executive decisions,
excluding those elements properly considered to be private:
Internal communications
guidance and criteria used for decision making, in effect process
systems and key personnel: Where access to internal
instructions, manuals and guidelines for dealing with the business
of the NDPB would assist public understanding of the way decisions
are made these should be readily available. We would not expect
information that might damage the operations of the NDPB to be
revealed: