Abstract: Until the Second World War the Cabinet Office appeared little more than an aggregation of committee secretariats held together through the secretary. Maurice Hankey was secretary to the Cabinet, the Committee of Imperial Defence, the Committee on Civil Research and the Economic Advisory Council, and was also Clerk to the Privy Council.1 The Cabinet Office was seen partly as 'the Secretariat proper', i.e. the staff who serviced ministers collectively in Cabinet and in its committees, and partly as a series of standing secretariats it was convenient to house within the same framework.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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