41.   Appointments to administrative posts in government departments, public enterprises and other state bureaus are controlled by the appropriate party committee.

42.   The goals of a government department are presumably those of its ministers.

43.   In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments.

44.   This is also reflected in the low esteem in which records and archival work is held in government departments.

45.   The social science Data Archive has even less muscle, relying entirely on the goodwill of government departments to deposit their material.

46.   The French Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, has issued a call to government departments to use electric cars for their staff fleets wherever possible.

47.   The energy committee found a serious lack of co-ordination between government departments.

48.   But as yet no action has been taken by British government departments.

49.   Each government department and public body will publish a statement of the principle areas in which it holds unrestricted environmental information.

50.   The proposals also allow government departments to make reasonable charges for providing information, including staff time and overheads.