Given that the Welsh Assembly Government has failed to post the results on its website, as it normally does with consultations, I had to unfortunately resort to asking the Government very nicely for copies of the submissions from various business organisations and, more importantly, from the various focus groups held with individual entrepreneurs and companies up and down the country.
You have to wonder why the mainstream press in Wales has not asked the same questions rather than quietly accepting the press line from the Assembly's myriad collection of "press officers".
Hopefully, I will get the opportunity to do some research over the weekend whilst fitting in a trip to the Ryder Cup with two of my best mates from Pwllheli. A cursory glance through the papers suggests that there will be some interesting findings.
For many, the real question is whether, as the Deputy First Minister pointed out after the launch of the ERP, the "new approach should be based on the feedback and concerns of businesses, communities, trades unions and other key organisations".
As he notes in the Western Mail today, "after an extensive process of engagement, we charted a new course ahead in Economic Renewal: a new direction". But did he and his civil servants take any heed of the consultation or, as Valleys Mam noted earlier this summer, had they already decided upon the way forward regardless of what businesses told him?
I am particularly interested to see whether business has called for "repayable grants" and the focusing of business support to six sectors which are, along with the £240 million broadband programme, the key planks of the ERP.
We all know by now what the CBI want for their members but what about the other businesses which attended the various focus groups up and down the country?
Was there an overwhelming desire to abolish grants for small firms and to scrap the FS4B programme of business advice?
If not, then there are some serious questions that need to be asked as to whether the senior civil service within the Department of Economy and Transport has, rather than responding to business needs, merely imposed its own agenda on the Minister and the Welsh business community.
Watch this space.
