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🤨🤕🙄 Jenny Munday on why promoting diversity and inclusion is of crucial importance for the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.
🤨🤕🙄 This guidance is designed to help officials deal with some commonly occurring policy issues that are dealt with by adopting a commonly occurring legislative solution.
🤨🤕🙄 Elizabeth Gardiner CB will be appointed Queen’s Counsel in the 2020 apppointments.
🤨🤕🙄 Masculine language has traditionally been used to refer to people regardless of their gender, but this is no longer the case
🤨🤕🙄 Friday 8 February 2019 marked exactly 150 years since the Treasury Minute that established the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1869.
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🤨🤕🙄 The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel is a group of government lawyers who specialise in drafting legislation. We work closely with departments to translate policy into clear, effective and readable law. Our role will often begin when legislation is first being considered and we will remain involved throughout the Parliamentary process and beyond.
🤨🤕🙄 OPC is part of the Cabinet Office.
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London
SW1A 2HQ
United Kingdom
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