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Catalogue description Cabinet Office: Questions of Procedure, Prime Ministers' Memoranda to Ministers (C(P) and C(PR) file series)
| Reference: | CAB 171 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cabinet Office: Questions of Procedure, Prime Ministers' Memoranda to Ministers (C(P) and C(PR) file series) |
| Description: |
This series contains Cabinet procedure papers. They give guidance to Ministers on questions of procedure by listing rules and precedents. An unreferenced document published in 1992 as part of the Open Government Initiative is also included. |
| Date: | 1966-1992 |
| Arrangement: |
Chronological |
| Separated material: |
Missing at transfer: Papers 1-5, C(P) Series,1966; Papers 2-3, C(PR) Series, 1973 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | C(P) and C(PR) file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Cabinet Office, 1916- |
| Physical description: | 20 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1997 Cabinet Office |
| Selection and destruction information: | Editions of Questions of Procedure more than 30 years old are open in CAB 129, as they were produced as Cabinet memoranda. From 1966 to 1987 the editions were produced by the Cabinet Office Committee Section, not as Cabinet memoranda. Other procedural memoranda are expected to accrue to the series in due course. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
A draft of suggested procedures and standards for ministers and for the conduct of ministerial, especially Cabinet, business, was submitted to incoming prime minister Clement Attlee by the Cabinet Secretary in 1945. It was approved by the prime minister and issued to ministers as guidance. Subsequently, each new incoming prime minister reissued the document, with any desired changes. Prime minister John Major gave instructions that the edition issued in 1996 over his name was to be published. In slightly different form and under the new title of the Ministerial Code, it is now published on the Cabinet Office website. |
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