Constitution Committee - Twelfth Report
The Cabinet Manual

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 7 March 2011.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The purpose and status of the Manual

The purpose of the Manual

The Manual as a guide

Ownership and approval

Justiciability

Is the Manual a first step towards a written constitution?

Chapter 3: The content of the Manual

Conventions

Government formation following a general election

Parliamentary procedures and conventions

The Salisbury-Addison convention

Procedures for taking bills through Parliament

The respective roles and procedures of the two Houses of Parliament

Chapter 4: The drafting of the Manual

The need for accuracy

Referencing

Process for publication of the revised Manual

Review and updating

Chapter 5: Conclusions

Appendix 1: Select Committee on the Constitution

Appendix 2: List of Witnesses

Appendix 3: Specific examples of inaccuracies relating to the House of Lords

List of Oral Evidence

Lord Adonis and Lord Wakeham
26 January 2011

Lord Adonis and Lord Wakeham Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, Lord Butler of Brockwell, Lord Wilson of Dinton and Lord Turnbull.
Supplementary evidence, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster.
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
2 February 2011

NOTE: Evidence taken at or in connection with a public hearing is printed in this volume.

References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:

Q  refers to a question in oral evidence;

DCM 1  refers to written evidence as listed in Appendix 2.

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