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Year Books

These are documents collected in chronological order, year by year. They come from a variety of sources, but many of them are letters, memoranda and minutes of departmental meetings.

Written witness statements

A witness statement is written evidence supplied to the Inquiry.

Transcripts of oral hearings

A number of witnesses gave oral evidence to the Inquiry, these are the transcripts of the relevant hearings.

Initial Background Documents

A selection of published material that was supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the start of the Inquiry.

Materials

These are further bulky documents from a variety of sources ('M' stands for 'Materials'). They have been filed in series of bundles in the same way as the Initial Background Documents and the other series of bundles described below.

Legislation

These refer to legislation (ie, Statutory Instruments - Regulations, Orders, etc - and Acts), which is generally available in published form. For convenience the legislation most frequently referred to at hearings was filed in a series of L bundles.

Inquiry Announcements

Documents from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Documents from the Department of Health

Documents from the Welsh Office

Documents from the Scottish Office

Documents from Northern Ireland Departments

Documents from other Departments

Documents relating to the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee

Documents relating to the Lamming Committee (the Expert Group on Animal Feedingstuffs)

Documents relating to the Consultative Committee on Research into Spongiform Encephalopathies chaired by Dr David Tyrrell