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Title of document, as it appears on the title page of the actual document.
Brief title, used in the Ford Breviates and Select Lists to give an
indication of the subject matter of the document. For the actual title
appearing on the title page of the document, see the field: 'Title'.
The name of the body responsible for issuing the document. For instance,
the name of a particular Select Committee or Royal Commission.
The name of an individual author of the document, or in the case of the
Ford Breviate volumes, the membership of a particular committee, if
appropriate.
Summary of the document. May contain quotations from the original
document (in 'quotation marks'), and references to related documents.
Either: 'Sessional papers' or 'Non-parliamentary papers'
'Sessional papers' is the name given to the series of parliamentary
papers (sometimes referred to as the 'Bound Set') from 1801 onwards.
Papers are arranged by Parliamentary session. Therefore, in order
to locate a particular document within a collection of the 'Sessional
Papers', you also need to know the 'session', 'volume' and 'paper/bill
number' (see separate definitions).
'Non-parliamentary papers' is the name given to documents published
by government departments not presented to Parliament (also referred
to to as 'Departmental publications'). Unlike 'Sessional papers',
non-parliamentary papers are not arranged into a bound set. Therefore
in order to locate a particular document within a collection of non-
parliamentary publications, you will probably need to know the 'corporate
author' and the 'date published'.
Date when the document was published. In the case
of 1688-1800 House of Commons Journals references
(which refer to the reprinted set published in 1803),
the "date published" refers to the date on which
the reference is categorised in the 1803 reprinted
volume (i.e. the date on which the matter referred
to was dealt with by the House of Commons).
Session is the word used to describe the Parliamentary year. A
Session begins with the State Opening of Parliament, usually in
November, and finishes the following November when Parliament is
'prorogued'.
Applies to Sessional papers only. The number (in Roman numeral
format) of the volume containing a particular document. Starts
afresh each Parliamentary session.
Either:
Bill [number] / HL Bill [number]: A draft law which has to be
approved by both Houses of Parliament before it received Royal
Assent and becomes an Act / Statute (Bill - House of Commons /
HL Bill - House of Lords). Bills form part of the sessional
papers, and number afresh from the start of each session.
HC. [number] / HL Paper [number]: Documents issued as a product
of the House's activities (e.g. Select Committee reports etc.);
supplied by Government at the request of Parliament; required by
law to be placed before parliament; financial papers (in the case
of the House of Commons) and domestic papers (e.g. Register of
Members' interests). Papers form part of the sessional papers,
and number afresh from the start of each session.
C / Cd. / Cmd. / Cmnd. / Cm. [number]: Command papers, presented
by the Government for the information of Parliament, consist of:
policy papers ('White Papers'); consultation papers ('Green Papers')
and treaties. Although presented to both Houses, they are no longer
included in Lords' Bound Set. Command papers number continuously
over many years (i.e. not within parliamentary sessions). It is
therefore important, when citing Command Papers, to use the correct
prefix.
C 1 to C 9550 : 1870 to 1899
Cd 1 to Cd 9239 : 1900 to 1918
Cmd 1 to Cmd 9889 : 1919 to 1956
Cmnd 1 to Cmnd 9927 : 1956 to 7 Nov 1986
Cm 1 - : 2 November 1986 to present
Total number of pages in the document (based on numbering
schemes used in the original text, for instance including,
roman numerals to signify preface section).
For sessional papers, HMSO - Her Majesty's Stationery Office
For departmental publications, either HMSO, or the department
itself (or their contracted printer).
Subject classication scheme used by Professor Peter Ford
and Grace Ford in their Breviate and Select List volumes.
Around 15 - 17 main subject categories, often with further
sub-divisions (denoted by a hyphen).
Link to full-text version of document (if available).
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