This series contains records of the Commonwealth Co-ordination Department dealing with constitutional policy, procedure and practice and the role of the monarchy in the Commonwealth, the co-ordination of constitutional development in the dependent territories and associated states, planning and arrangements for meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, relations with the Commonwealth Secretariat and other intra-Commonwealth organisations not allocated to other FCO departments (principally the Commonwealth Institute, the Commonwealth Foundation, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and national Commonwealth societies), and the Commonwealth Gift Scheme.