, including transcripts of all debates in Hansard and all recent committee reports. View research material produced by the parliamentary libraries.You can also access older electronic papers where available or find out how to access the archives of the House of Lords and House of Commons.
official-documents Official Documents is the official reference facility for Command Papers, House of Commons Papers and key Departmental papers. see below for details of these.
Command Papers
Command Papers derive their name from the fact that a Government minister presents them to Parliament "by Command of Her Majesty". The Papers are numbered consecutively and the current series takes the prefix Cm.
House of Commons Papers
House of Commons Papers (HCPs) are a large and varied body of documents, many of which have familiar titles, although few appreciate that they form part of this series. They are numbered consecutively in a series which starts with each new Parliamentary session.
Using this website you can access the text of those HCPs which originate in Government departments. Many of these are annual reports and accounts concerning a wide range of public bodies, including virtually every executive agency.
For procedural reasons a number of reports from major inquiries are also published in this series, including The Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly CMG (more commonly known as the Hutton Report).
Other Papers
Other important papers sponsored by Government departments are classified as "Other Papers". For instance, The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools 2003/04, sponsored by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, is included here.
Official Documents Archives
Selected Command and House papers from 1994 to April 2005 were previously available on two separate, archive websites. To simplify matters, we have expanded the Advanced Searchon this website to include these papers. Simply use the advanced seach as normal, and select the "1994 to April 2005 Results" to access the archive material.
-150x150.jpg)
All of our 
