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Explore the starter data
We used AI-assisted research to investigate the published sources, then created 20 non-sensitive synthetic records shaped by what those sources expose. It is starter data for exploration—not real service data or evidence.
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Twenty synthetic consultation responses standing in for a real consultation mailbox, so the analysis task can be tried without holding one.
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Use 20 synthetic consultation responses to explore theme grouping without holding a consultation mailbox. Switch views without losing the description, source file, or limitations on this page.
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01SYN-0001Record details
- Id
- SYN-0001
- Theme
- access-to-services
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- We work with people who have no home internet and no smartphone. The proposal assumes a digital route is a choice. For the people we support it is not, and the paper alternative has been quietly withdrawn from three of the offices they used to be able to walk to.
02SYN-0002Record details
- Id
- SYN-0002
- Theme
- access-to-services
- Stance
- supportive
- Text
- Anything that stops people telling the same story four times to four different teams is welcome. Please make sure the single record can be corrected by the person it describes, and not only by staff.
03SYN-0003Record details
- Id
- SYN-0003
- Theme
- access-to-services
- Stance
- uncertain
- Text
- It is hard to comment without knowing what happens at the point of refusal. If a decision is reached faster but the review afterwards still takes eleven weeks, we are not sure the change helps the people who most need it.
04SYN-0004Record details
- Id
- SYN-0004
- Theme
- access-to-services
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- The ambition is right and the timetable is not. Broadband where we are is still unreliable in bad weather, so a service that only works well online will only work well for some of us.
05SYN-0005Record details
- Id
- SYN-0005
- Theme
- workforce-capability
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- Our members are already covering vacancies. Adding a new system without removing anything else is not a productivity gain, it is unpaid overtime. The consultation is clear about what will be introduced and silent about what will stop.
06SYN-0006Record details
- Id
- SYN-0006
- Theme
- workforce-capability
- Stance
- supportive
- Text
- Training is mentioned, which is more than usual. We would ask that it is delivered before go-live rather than as a recording sent round the week after, and that staff who raise problems during training are actually listened to.
07SYN-0007Record details
- Id
- SYN-0007
- Theme
- workforce-capability
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- Experienced staff can usually tell when an output is wrong. Newer staff often cannot, and they will be the ones using the tool most. We support the aim but the risk sits with the least experienced, which is the opposite of how the proposal reads.
08SYN-0008Record details
- Id
- SYN-0008
- Theme
- workforce-capability
- Stance
- uncertain
- Text
- We could not tell from the document whether a member of staff is permitted to disagree with a recommendation, or whether disagreeing creates extra work for them. The answer to that changes our view entirely.
09SYN-0009Record details
- Id
- SYN-0009
- Theme
- data-governance
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- Consultation responses are not anonymous simply because a name has been removed. Ours describes a specific site, a specific dispute, and a small number of people. Please do not treat structured text as safe by default.
10SYN-0010Record details
- Id
- SYN-0010
- Theme
- data-governance
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- We accept there is a lawful basis for the processing described. We do not accept that having a lawful basis answers the question of whether the processing is proportionate, and the two are treated as the same thing throughout.
11SYN-0011Record details
- Id
- SYN-0011
- Theme
- data-governance
- Stance
- supportive
- Text
- Publishing the retention period alongside the service itself is good practice and we would like to see it kept. Please also publish what happens to the working copies held by contractors.
12SYN-0012Record details
- Id
- SYN-0012
- Theme
- data-governance
- Stance
- uncertain
- Text
- It is not clear to us who holds the record once it has been shared with a partner body. If both hold it then both should say so in their own privacy notice, and we cannot tell from the proposal whether that is the intention.
13SYN-0013Record details
- Id
- SYN-0013
- Theme
- accountability
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- There is a named responsible officer in the diagram and no named responsible officer in the process. When something goes wrong the person affected will be told that the system decided, and that is not an accountable answer.
14SYN-0014Record details
- Id
- SYN-0014
- Theme
- accountability
- Stance
- supportive
- Text
- We welcome the commitment that a person can ask why a decision was reached. The test will be whether the answer they get is one they can actually act on, rather than a reference to a policy number.
15SYN-0015Record details
- Id
- SYN-0015
- Theme
- accountability
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- Ownership is clear at the top and unclear in the middle. Between the policy lead and the frontline there are two teams and a supplier, and the proposal does not say which of them holds the decision when they disagree with each other.
16SYN-0016Record details
- Id
- SYN-0016
- Theme
- procurement-and-reuse
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- The specification effectively describes one product already on the market. If that is deliberate the consultation should say so, and if it is not then the requirements need rewriting before anything goes to tender.
17SYN-0017Record details
- Id
- SYN-0017
- Theme
- procurement-and-reuse
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- Buying something proven is sensible and being unable to leave is not. We would want an exit plan, an export in a format another supplier can read, and the cost of both written down before signature rather than after.
18SYN-0018Record details
- Id
- SYN-0018
- Theme
- procurement-and-reuse
- Stance
- uncertain
- Text
- We support reuse in principle but do not know what is actually available to reuse. A published list of what other departments already hold would let us answer this question properly instead of guessing.
19SYN-0019Record details
- Id
- SYN-0019
- Theme
- environmental-cost
- Stance
- critical
- Text
- The impact assessment counts the electricity used by the building and not the electricity used by the computation. That omission makes the net figure look better than it is, and the omission is nowhere acknowledged.
20SYN-0020Record details
- Id
- SYN-0020
- Theme
- environmental-cost
- Stance
- mixed
- Text
- Fewer site visits genuinely does reduce mileage and we recognise that. Whether the saving survives once the processing and the storage are counted is not shown, and the assessment should show it either way.
Synthetic working data
AI-assisted research helped identify and interpret the published sources. We then created a small, non-sensitive synthetic dataset shaped by the information those sources expose. It is for exploration—not evidence, training, or operational decisions.
Method note
How it was prepared
AI authored fictional responses shaped by the structure and vocabulary of a published consultation response report.
Conditions for use
What this dataset cannot tell you
- The dataset is far smaller and tidier than a real consultation mailbox.
- The six themes and four stances are this project's own choices, verified in no official source.
- It is invented. No record describes a real person, place, case, or measurement, and no result computed from it is evidence that anything works in a live service.