The phrase "a consultation exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a process or activity designed to gather input or feedback from stakeholders or the public on a specific issue or proposal.
Example: "The government is conducting a consultation exercise to gather opinions on the new policy changes."
Alternatives: "a feedback session" or "a public consultation".
The red tape to open the store has been a nasty surprise but, even so, the fact the market is so open to the brand's designs means that even if he had invested in a consultation exercise to find out a year ago what he knows now, he would still have picked New York.
The Government will finalise its proposals early in the new year after a consultation exercise.
His department has named 157 magistrates' and county courts earmarked for closure and it has launched a consultation exercise.
The British government imposes this increase despite a consultation exercise in which all but five of 147 responses opposed it.
A consultation exercise is already under way to find which reforms are ripe to be pushed through.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change and Defra last week began a consultation exercise with industry designed to help accelerate the roll out of AD systems.
As part of its consideration of my petition, the Scottish government commissioned a public consultation exercise on whether a Sunshine Act is needed or not.
A spokesman said: "We could then treat the exercise as a bona fide referendum, rather than a bogus consultation exercise".
A national consultation exercise was held as part of a review of mental health nursing in England.
A decision would depend on the result of a public consultation exercise, but abolition would be politically risky and could run into opposition.
The decision to introduce tests at the start of the first year of schooling comes after a DfE consultation exercise last year, which first included suggestions of a brief baseline test.
