Series
Cabinet Office: Questions of Procedure, Prime Ministers' Memoranda to Ministers (C(P)...
Catalogue reference: CAB 171
What's it about?
CAB 171
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 171
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet Office: Questions of Procedure, Prime Ministers' Memoranda to Ministers (C(P) and C(PR) file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Missing at transfer: Papers 1-5, C(P) Series,1966; Papers 2-3, C(PR) Series, 1973
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- C(P) and C(PR) file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Cabinet Office, 1916-1916
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 20 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 Cabinet Office
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- 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.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3978/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: CAB
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Cabinet Office: Questions of Procedure, Prime Ministers' Memoranda to Ministers (C(P) and C(PR) file series)