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The Government's response to the Constitutional Affairs Committee report April 2008

This document contains the following information: The Government's response to the Constitutional Affairs Committee report on the constitutional role of the Attorney General.

This was published under the 2005 to 2010 Labour government

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A further Government response to the Constitutional Affairs Committee’s (the Justice Committee’s predecessor) fifth report, HC 306, session 2006-07 (ISBN 9780215035462), dealing with a number of specific points in the report. An initial response published as HC 242, session 2007-08 (ISBN 9780215513588) but the main response is included in the White Paper ‘The governance of Britain: constitutional renewal’ (Cm. 7342, ISBN 9780101734226) which also responded to ‘A consultation on the role of the Attorney General’ (Cm. 7192, July 2007, ISBN 9780101719223).

This Command Paper was laid before Parliament by a Government Minister by Command of Her Majesty. Command Papers are considered by the Government to be of interest to Parliament but are not required to be presented by legislation.

Published 30 April 2008