Public Administration - Fifth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 July 2006.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Background
Political memoirs in the early twentieth
century
The Crossman diaries and the Radcliffe Report
1993 Cabinet Office guidance note
3 Determining the public interest
Confidential relations within government
The public interest in publication
The public interest in restraint
Memoirs and money
Who and what needs to be protected?
Ministers
Cabinet confidentiality
Ministers and civil servants
Civil servants and diplomats
Special advisers
Diaries
The question of timing
4 From principle to practice
The principles governing publication
Current guidance
Restatement of the principles
Approval processes
The current situation
Making the process clearer
Who clears?
Enforcement
Remedies
Crown Copyright and confidentiality clauses
The Cabinet Office and Foreign and Commonwealth
Office proposals
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex: Procedure for Clearing Memoirs
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of unprinted written
evidence
Reports from the Public
Administration Select Committee
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 689-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 689-II)
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