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MEMORANDUM OF GUIDANCE FOR OFFICIALS APPEARING BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEES

(MARCH 1988)

(This supersedes GEN 80/38)

PARAGRAPHS

CONTENTS

1

1.

Introduction

2-19

2.

Select Committee System

20-27

3.

Provision of Evidence

4.

Limitations on the Provision of

Information

28-44

3.

Treatment of Evidence

45-51

6.

Evidence from other Bodies

52-55

2

7.

Departmental Replies to Committee Reports

56-66

B

Annexes

9.

Index

INTRODUCTION

This note is intended to give guidance to officials who may be called to give evidence before, or to prepare memoranda for

It supersedes submission to, Parliamentary Select Committees. General Notice GEN 80/38. It should be read in conjunction with the supplementary guidance issued in April, 1987, (see paragraph 28A and Annex A). While it is primarily intended to cover the Select Committees of the House of Commons, it is also generally

It may applicable to Select Committees of the House of Lords. not always be literally applicable to the Public Accounts Committee, in view of the special position of Accounting Officers and the access of the Comptroller and Auditor General to departmental records. Supplementary guidance on the procedure to be followed in respect of the Commons Select Committee on European Legislation (and the corresponding House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities) and on the handling of European Community documents is issued separately by the Cabinet Office. Guidance in dealing with the Joint and Select Committees on Statutory Instruments is provided in "Statutory Instrument Practice".