Cabinet Office written question – answered on 2 June 2023.
Lord Godson
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the contractual relationship between the Cabinet Office and the publisher, Routledge.
Lord Godson
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government whether Routledge has an exclusive right to publish Official Histories produced by the Official History Programme under its contract with the Cabinet Office.
Lord Godson
Conservative
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.
Lord Godson
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government whether Official Histories on ‘Devolution’ and ‘Policy towards the Former Yugoslavia’ have been commissioned.
Lord Godson
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Official History Programme has its own budget.
Lord Godson
Conservative
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.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
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.
No new official histories have been commissioned since the Pilling Review and no histories of devolution or policy towards Yugoslavia have been commissioned.
The Official History Programme had a budget of £7,500 in 2016-17 but has not had a separate budget since then.
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