As a western democratic society we have the right to be consulted by our elected representatives on social issues.
The Met said in a statement: "The Metropolitan police's directorate of professional standards consulted the Crown Prosecution Service about the alleged leaking of information by a police officer from Operation Weeting.
QAA has consulted academics on, and included in the UK Quality Code, the basic features that should be incorporated into courses in terms of design, recruitment, learning and teaching, student participation and engagement, assessment and external examining, course updating, appeals and complaints, collaboration and research degrees.
But some parents have complained they were not consulted about the surveys.
"If there's people in the government making decisions about our children, we need to be consulted; we need to be together".
They have consulted their personal records which confirm that the issue first came to their attention in May 2011 when the story broke," he said.
The attorney general was consulted about Monday's decision.
Unions expected to have been consulted on important policy and also be seen to be so, complete with beer, sandwiches and TV crews waiting outside the front door.
Was he consulted in any of the decision-making this time?
Historian Justin Pollard has consulted on films including Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), as well as the TV series The Tudors and Vikings.
In the runup to last week's vote it ostentatiously consulted the Council of Europe's Venice commission, whose jurists are supposed to protect and promote the rule of law in Europe – except that the commission's experts never really got to see the whole constitution and subsequently expressed deep doubts about the project.
