Evidence
These
files are all supplied as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
See help page for details.
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.
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
© Crown Copyright 2000. Legal notice.
Any part of this report may be reproduced subject to acknowledgement.