Letter - Privy Council Office's Agreement Regarding Preparation of Letters Patent [1980-09-08]

Letter - Privy Council Office's Agreement Regarding Preparation of Letters Patent [1980-09-08]

Great Seal

Letter from Sir Neville Leigh to Sir Wilfrid Bourne expressing agreement with the proposal to print the Letters Patent appointing Counsellors of State on paper and seal them with the Wafer Great Seal.

Sir Neville Leigh (Clerk of the Privy Council)

LCO 6/3764

1980-09-08

Jason Loch

911 (38)

 

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
WHITEHALL, LONDON SW1A 2AT

 

8th September 1980

 

Miss Malley

What next? I had better
tell P. Moore, but do
we have to trouble
the H. O.—or
the LC? JWB 9/9

 

Dear Wilfrid,

Thank you for your letter of the 4th September about Letters Patent appointing Counsellors of State.

I confirm that the sealed Letters Patent for this purpose which you send us are not issued to anybody but are simply kept in a cupboard here. They are therefore as you say in a class of their own and I entirely support your suggestion that they should in future be produced in a more economical form.

It is quite stimulating to find the extent to which, under current pressures, one can save money by cutting out time-honoured practices for which, on enquiry, there proves to be little or no justification! I have myself already identified several such practices here, notably in regard to the appallingly expensive business of publication in the Gazettes.

Yours ever,

(Sgd.) Neville Leigh

 

Sir Wilfrid Bourne, K. C. B.,
Lord Chancellor’s Office,
House of Lords,
London SW1A 0PW

Sir Neville Leigh (Clerk of the Privy Council)

Sir Wilfrid Bourne (Clerk of the Crown in Chancery)

Letterhead features the Royal Arms surrounded by the Garter and surmounted by St. Edward's Crown with "PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE" beneath in the top left. Address is on the top right.

Document is typewritten with handwritten salutation and valediction.

Document has handwritten annotation from Sir Wilfrid Bourne.