(in the UK) a document laid before Parliament by order of the Crown, though in practice by the government.
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- It is arranged alphabetically by subject and lists in the order of Bills, Command Papers and House of Commons Papers.
- The Government has made arrangements for this Command Paper to be available electronically via the Internet.
- The Command Paper makes clear that the Government will retain the flexibility to set up future quota-based low-skilled schemes to meet temporary labour shortages.
- A list of Command Papers from 2001 onwards is available on this website with links to the Command Papers where known.
- This includes House of Commons Bills, House of Commons Papers and Command Papers.
- As is stated in ‘Protecting the Public’ (the Command Paper of the Home Office published in November 2002 page 21).
- In order to assist searching, departments should consider placing Command Papers in directories named after an individual Command Paper's number.
- During the eighteenth century, Command Papers were printed as appendices to the House of Commons Journal.
- The series of Command Papers published so far have been numbered as follows.
- All Command Papers published from May 2005 onwards are available on the Official Documents site.