Catalogue description Records of Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Inquiries

Details of Division within CAB
Reference: Division within CAB
Title: Records of Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Inquiries
Description:

Records of Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Inquiries:

Records of the Special Commissions to Enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia (the Hamilton Commission) and the Dardanelles (the Cromer and Pickford Commission), appointed under the Special Commissions (Dardanelles and Mesopotamia) Act 1916, are in CAB 19.

Records of the (Renton) Committee on the Preparation of Legislation, 1973 to 1975, are in CAB 135.

Records of the (Brabin) Inquiry into the Case of Timothy John Evans, appointed in 1965, are in CAB 143.

Records of the (Templer) Commonwealth Youth Trust Committee, 1958 to 1959, are in CAB 144.

Records of the (Longford, Stewart and Crossman) Youth Inquiry, set up in 1967, are in CAB 153.

Records of the (Duncan) Review Committee on Overseas Representation, 1968 to 1969, are in CAB 162.

Records of the (Wakeham) Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords, appointed in 1999, are in CAB 180; digital records are in CAB 201.

Records of the Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction (Butler Review), are in CAB 200.

The Falkland Islands Review Committee (The Franks Report), are in CAB 292.
Date: 1916-2004
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 10 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Descriptions of various temporary bodies have been brought together within this Cabinet Office division. The bodies represented either were staffed from the Cabinet Office, or when they were disbanded the surviving records were passed into the custody of the Cabinet Office for safe keeping.

The committees reflected by records catalogued in this division were not administered as Cabinet committees.

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