3. Would Departments please consider whether material on other topics should be offered and, if so, discuss this with the Parliamentary Unit before drafting? If Departments decide not to offer briefing on any subject specified above, I should be grateful if they would telephone their nil return to the Parliamentary Unit.
4.
As always, material should be succinct. The briefs should be in the form of a speaking note (unclassified), supplemented by a separate brief background note only where absolutely necessary.
5. I should be grateful if briefs could reach me by 5 pm on Monday 14 December.
6. Please pass the attached note on the presentation of briefs to your Secretarial Staff.
Brian Bowley
B E Bowley
Parliamentary Clerk
8 December 1981