CABINET SECRECY
records of proceedings TAKEN (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 21st May. Sir Maurice Hankey’s evidence before the Budget leakage tribunal would have been impossible in any previous political generation. Until Mr Lloyd George’s time the Cabinet had no secretary, the only record of its proceedings being such as was kept by the Prime Minister, and at the close of the meeting it sometimes remained doubtful what, if anything, had been decided. The new system, under which Sir Maurice Hankey makes a careful minute, is admitted to be a great improvement, but it has in no way relaxed the obligation of secrecy which rests on Cabinet Ministers in their capacity as Privy Councillors. and for the disclosure of anything that has been done the consent of ,the King is required. But some recent Ministerial authors have not been over-punctilious in their adherence to this rule of secrecy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 8
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