I was not at the department at the time, but my understanding is that the previous act died on the order paper. It was never debated and never defeated. So if the act were reintroduced, the consultation that went into, certainly, the last version of it would be deemed to be the consultation required—at least to get it to the first stages. That's not to say there wouldn't be additional consultations once it were in the public.
So it's really not the case that the act or the consultation was not sufficient, it's just that the House schedule being what it was, the act did not make its way through the system.