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1644888

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many civil servants are allocated to the Official History Programme; and what are their responsibilities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL8492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no Civil Servants allocated to the Official Histories Programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Works commissioned under the Official History Programme but not yet published are the fifth and final volume of the Official History of the Criminal Justice System and the second and final volume of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be possible to answer when titles were commissioned without disproportionate effort. However, this would have been well in excess of 10 years ago. We do not have any further prospective publishing dates at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Histories, Openness and Records Unit (HORU) was absorbed into the Knowledge and Information Management Unit (KIMU) in 2008. This is now known as the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives (COPRA) Unit. The last Head of the Official History Programme retired from the Cabinet Office over 7 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>The Government did not publish a response to the 2009 review of the Official History Programme led by Sir Joseph Pilling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL8493 HL8494 HL8495 HL8496 HL8497 question first answered 28/06/2023 11:19:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1644889

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the titles and authors of works commissioned under the Official History Programme but not yet published; when these titles were commissioned; and when they are due to be published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL8493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no Civil Servants allocated to the Official Histories Programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Works commissioned under the Official History Programme but not yet published are the fifth and final volume of the Official History of the Criminal Justice System and the second and final volume of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be possible to answer when titles were commissioned without disproportionate effort. However, this would have been well in excess of 10 years ago. We do not have any further prospective publishing dates at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Histories, Openness and Records Unit (HORU) was absorbed into the Knowledge and Information Management Unit (KIMU) in 2008. This is now known as the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives (COPRA) Unit. The last Head of the Official History Programme retired from the Cabinet Office over 7 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>The Government did not publish a response to the 2009 review of the Official History Programme led by Sir Joseph Pilling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL8492 HL8494 HL8495 HL8496 HL8497 question first answered 28/06/2023 11:19:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1644890

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the last 10 Official History titles published by Routledge were commissioned by the Official History Programme.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL8494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no Civil Servants allocated to the Official Histories Programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Works commissioned under the Official History Programme but not yet published are the fifth and final volume of the Official History of the Criminal Justice System and the second and final volume of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be possible to answer when titles were commissioned without disproportionate effort. However, this would have been well in excess of 10 years ago. We do not have any further prospective publishing dates at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Histories, Openness and Records Unit (HORU) was absorbed into the Knowledge and Information Management Unit (KIMU) in 2008. This is now known as the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives (COPRA) Unit. The last Head of the Official History Programme retired from the Cabinet Office over 7 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>The Government did not publish a response to the 2009 review of the Official History Programme led by Sir Joseph Pilling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL8492 HL8493 HL8495 HL8496 HL8497 question first answered 28/06/2023 11:19:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1644893

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what its response was to the 2009 review of the Official History Programme led by Sir Joe Pilling.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL8497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no Civil Servants allocated to the Official Histories Programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Works commissioned under the Official History Programme but not yet published are the fifth and final volume of the Official History of the Criminal Justice System and the second and final volume of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be possible to answer when titles were commissioned without disproportionate effort. However, this would have been well in excess of 10 years ago. We do not have any further prospective publishing dates at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Histories, Openness and Records Unit (HORU) was absorbed into the Knowledge and Information Management Unit (KIMU) in 2008. This is now known as the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives (COPRA) Unit. The last Head of the Official History Programme retired from the Cabinet Office over 7 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>The Government did not publish a response to the 2009 review of the Official History Programme led by Sir Joseph Pilling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL8492 HL8493 HL8494 HL8495 HL8496 question first answered 28/06/2023 11:19:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1628952

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether any new Official Histories have been commissioned since the publication of the Joe Pilling Review into the Official History Programme in 2008; and if so, what Official Histories have been commissioned and when.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL7936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, as part of a consortium including the FCDO and MoD, has a non-exclusive contract with Taylor Francis, Routledge’s Parent Company, for the publication of Official Histories.</p><p>No new official histories have been commissioned since the Pilling Review and no histories of devolution or policy towards Yugoslavia have been commissioned.</p><p>The Official History Programme had a budget of £7,500 in 2016-17 but has not had a separate budget since then.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL7934 HL7935 HL7937 HL7938 HL7939 question first answered 02/06/2023 12:52:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1628954

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Official History Programme has its own budget.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL7938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, as part of a consortium including the FCDO and MoD, has a non-exclusive contract with Taylor Francis, Routledge’s Parent Company, for the publication of Official Histories.</p><p>No new official histories have been commissioned since the Pilling Review and no histories of devolution or policy towards Yugoslavia have been commissioned.</p><p>The Official History Programme had a budget of £7,500 in 2016-17 but has not had a separate budget since then.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL7934 HL7935 HL7936 HL7937 HL7939 question first answered 02/06/2023 12:52:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1628955

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total budget allocated by the Cabinet Office to the Official History Programme in each of the financial years: (1) 2016–17, (2) 2017–18, (3) 2018–19, (4) 2019–20, (5) 2020–21, and (6) 2021–22.
	tabling member printed	Lord Godson
	uin	HL7939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, as part of a consortium including the FCDO and MoD, has a non-exclusive contract with Taylor Francis, Routledge’s Parent Company, for the publication of Official Histories.</p><p>No new official histories have been commissioned since the Pilling Review and no histories of devolution or policy towards Yugoslavia have been commissioned.</p><p>The Official History Programme had a budget of £7,500 in 2016-17 but has not had a separate budget since then.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL7934 HL7935 HL7936 HL7937 HL7938 question first answered 02/06/2023 12:52:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1434479

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what work they are undertaking under their Official History Programme; and when they intend to publish it.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL6355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2022 answer text <p>Volumes 4 and 5 of the Official History of the Criminal Justice system and volume 2 of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee will be published in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 02/03/2022 14:47:43 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

1137960

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they last reviewed the possible resumption of producing official histories.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank
	uin	HL17059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s official history series is intended to provide authoritative histories in their own right.</p><p>Two volumes of Criminal Justice history were published earlier this year. The next publication is due out in autumn 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/07/2019 14:55:25 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	940 label Biography information for Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank

677413

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	History: Publications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 23 January (HL4523), whether they intend to commission any new projects to carry forward the Official History programme.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL4879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>As the Noble Friend knows from my answer to his written question, there are a number of Official Histories currently being produced. The Government will decide on new history projects when the current programme has been completed.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 26/01/2017 14:16:37 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden