Catalogue description Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life: Minutes, Evidence and Papers

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Reference: HO 241
Title: Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life: Minutes, Evidence and Papers
Description:

Evidence and summaries of evidence presented to the commission, correspondence of the chairman, papers of the commission, including those relating to the preparation of the report, and a copy of the report (Cmnd 6524).

Date: 1974-1976
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-1976

Physical description: 678 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life was appointed in December 1974 under the chairmanship of The Rt. Hon. Lord Salmon. The terms of reference of the Commission were:"To inquire into standards of conduct in central and local government and other public bodies in the United Kingdom in relation to the problems of conflict of interest and the risk of corruption involving favourable treatment from a public body; and to make recommendations as to the further safeguards which may be required to ensure the highest standard of probity in public life."

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