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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a command paper" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of government or official documents that are presented to Parliament or another governing body, often containing proposals or information.
Example: "The government has released a command paper outlining its plans for economic recovery."
Alternatives: "an official report" or "a government document".
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A command paper setting out the reforms will be published within the next few months.
From 1945 he had been a member of the committee that had drawn up plans for a command paper for conservation in England and Wales.
A month later it busily put out a command paper, Action for Roads, which was supposed to detail how that would be spent, promising 52 new schemes, including 221 miles of new motorway lane.
That a command paper will be published by the end of October, that the heads of agreement between the parties and further devolution will come in November and that the draft legislation, the laws that will form the Scotland bill and eventually the Scotland Act, will be ready by the end of January.
Recommendations were made and a command paper was published at Westminster.
a "command paper" to be published by the present UK government setting out all the proposals by end of October.
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The consultation was part of a rail command paper on rail reform published today by Transport Secretary Justine Greening in response to a Whitehall-commissioned rail report on cost-cutting by Sir Roy McNulty.
The outgoing Scottish first minister said that devolution plans, set out in a new command paper on Monday by the Scotland Office, were "weak".
Because these are indeed different times - and this is a rather unusual command paper with its concomitant draft legislation.
The DfT's rail command paper was a response to Sir Roy McNulty's 2011 rail value-for-money study, which said UK railways were among Europe's most costly and the industry could save 20% to 30% by changing working practices.
In a separate proposal set out in the command paper, the Liberal Democrats called for English MPs at Westminster to have a "stronger voice and a stronger veto" over purely English-only issues.
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