Calls for evidence
Create, update and conclude a call for evidence on 188体育.
Before you create a call for evidence, make sure that you are not carrying out (or required to carry out) a consultation. You may wish to refer to the Consultation Principles or speak to your legal advisers. There could be legal consequences if you create a call for evidence when you are carrying out a consultation.
If you need to publish a consultation, there鈥檚 separate guidance on consultations
A call for evidence stays on the same page of 188体育 throughout its lifecycle. The status starts as 鈥極pen鈥� and changes to 鈥楥losed鈥� on the closing date you specify. If you upload an outcome, it will change to 鈥楥losed with outcome鈥�. The contact details will also disappear.
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Select 鈥楽ave and go to document summary鈥� to add topic tagging.
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Add a title and summary and enter some body copy of no more than 100 words which summarises the call for evidence.
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Enter the opening and closing dates.
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If the call for evidence is held on another website, select the box and enter the URL of the website.
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Under 鈥榃ays to respond鈥�, add the contact details for public responses. If you鈥檙e providing a downloadable response form, use the 鈥楧ownloadable response form title鈥� field and the 鈥楥hoose file鈥� button to add it here.
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The email address for ordering attachment files in an alternative format should automatically be your organisation. If this is not the case, select the correct organisation from the dropdown menu.
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If there are any ministers or topical events related to your call for evidence, use the drop down menu to assign ministers and topical events.
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Select the nations this call for evidence applies to. If it doesn鈥檛 apply to a nation, select the country, then enter the URL of the corresponding content.
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The call for evidence will automatically be tagged to your organisation. If more organisations are involved you can tag them under 鈥楲ead organisations鈥� and 鈥楽upporting organisations鈥�.
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Schedule the publication for the opening date. Select the box next to 鈥楽chedule for publication鈥� and enter the date in the boxes that appear.
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Select 鈥楽ave鈥� to go to the edition summary page, or 鈥楽ave and continue鈥� to add topic tagging. The attachments tab will not appear until you have saved the document.
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Select 鈥楨dit draft鈥� to edit the document and add attachments.
Upload the main call for evidence document, plus any relevant supporting documents using the following steps.
You must save the summary before you can add attachments.
- Select the 鈥楢ttachments鈥� tab.
- Select 鈥楿pload new file attachments鈥�.
- Enter the title of your document in the 鈥楾itle鈥� field.
- Select 鈥楥hoose file鈥� to upload your document.
- Select 鈥楽ave鈥�.
- Select the 鈥楧ocument鈥� tab.
- Select 鈥楽ave and go to document summary鈥�.聽You can then choose to add topic tagging.
- Select 鈥楽ubmit for 2nd eyes鈥�. The editor reviewing the page will need to select 鈥楽chedule鈥� in order for the consultation to go live at the scheduled time. If it has not been scheduled for publication, they will select 鈥楶ublish鈥�.
When the call for evidence reaches its closing date the status changes to 鈥楥losed鈥�.
You must save the summary before you can add attachments. Select the 鈥極utcome鈥� tab.
- Select the published date using the dropdown menu.
- Enter a short summary of the outcome in the summary field.
- Select Save.
Upload a file attachment
- Select 鈥楿pload new file attachment鈥� link.
- Enter the title of your attachment in the title field.
- Select 鈥楥hoose file鈥� to select the attachment.
- Select 鈥楽ave鈥�.
- If you have multiple attachments, you can reorder them by selecting the 鈥楻eorder attachments鈥� link.
Upload an HTML attachment
- Select 鈥楢dd new HTML attachment鈥� link.
- Enter the title of your page in the title field.
- Enter the body in the body field. You can use Markdown to format your text.
- Select the 鈥楶review鈥� button to check your formatting.
- Select 鈥楽ave鈥�.
- If you have multiple attachments, you can reorder them by selecting the 鈥楻eorder attachments鈥� link.