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'General Considerations' (or something like that) a

section in which we may feel it right to make clear that,

while we have no difficulty in dealing with the matter

of the "proper", "impartial", and "faithful" conduct of

its task by the Assessment Office, we had found the question

of "accuracy" much more difficult in the circumstances

of the response to the consultation exercise received by

the Assessment Office. It would be premature to reach

a final view, but what do you think ?

Approach to Conclusions

4.

Whatever we may decide to say to preface our

Conclusions, we shall be expected to be as clear and

firm as possible in our judgments. In paragraph 10 of

the draft which you already have, I have provisionally

suggested words to indicate that it cannot be for us simply

a matter of logical intellectual conclusions. But, subject

to saying something like that, I believe that we must try

and answer as straightforwardly as possible the questions

derived from our terms of reference.

5.

To take those questions in turn, and in what

may prove to be the most convenient order: -

/ (a)

1.C.,?

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