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Mr Transend
Planners for action.
CABINET OFFICE
70 Whitehall London SW1A 2AS Telephone 071 270 0189
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Legal Advisers EYD (1)
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4 September 1990
Dear Puate seautos
THE QUEEN'S SPEECHES ON THE PROROGATION AND THE OPENING OF
PARLIAMENT
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Thank you for your reply to Ros McCool's letter of 2 July.
I enclose our first consolidated drafts of the speeches. always, considerable editing has been necessary in the interests of limiting length. In some cases it has been necessary to omit entire elements. Passages in square brackets relate to matters such as state visits which
which have not yet happened or are still under discussion, continuing international negotiations, and pieces of legislation which do not yet have a firm place in next Session's programme.
3.
Drafts of the speeches will be considered by QL Committee on 18 September and will then be circulated by the Lord President to members of the Cabinet. The purpose of letting you
of letting you see the drafts at this stage is to identify in advance any major difficulties about content or balance of
of which QL should be aware. I would therefore be grateful for any comments on the attached drafts by midday on Wednesday 12 September. Where additions are suggested, it would be helpful if offsetting deletions from the text could be identified, since, subject to the points made below, the drafts are already around the maximum acceptable length.
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In editing the material a few points occurred to us to which the relevant Departments may wish to give particular consideration:-
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