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Classified memoranda or classified annexes to memoranda should be made available to members only during
or Sub-Committee meetings and on request on the Com.... Office. Xembers should not be free to take classified documents away with them.
Classified portions er oral evidence should be sidelined by the witzess in the shorthand writer's transcript and then excised by the Committee before the evidence is printed a proof for and distributed to Committee Debers, the full record being returned in the Committee Office for perusal there by nesters authorized to have access to it in accordance with paragraph á above.
Current guidance on this subject in Chapter 27, paragraphs 22-25*of the damual "Security in Government Departhents" wild be revised accordingly. Further guidance for Officiels giving evidence to Farlianmtary Select Committees was DOZTEÉZed in a Bezɔremium issued under cover of a CSD EED letter dated 13 September 1972. Paragraph 9 reminis Departments that ́some Select Committees admit the public and press to hearings, e7: paragraph 24 advises on the action to be taken if an Official Es asked a question in open session which he cannot answer on security or similar grounds.
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3. Some Departments are already applying these miles unde informal understandings with the relevant Select Committees. your Department is not already applying the rules on an informel basis I should be grateful if you would put them into effect forthwith.
4. I am copying this letter to the Heads of Department ca the attached list.
Your maily,
Dangles
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Now Appendix M. The remainder of this paragraph has been superseded.
Note : References in this letter to the Expenditure Comittee and its Sub-Committees should now be read as referring to the Select Committees related to Government Departments (paragraph 4 of this Memorandum). The special arrangements at paragraph 1(1)(b) of the letter are no longer applicable.