(in the UK) a document laid before Parliament by order of the Crown, though in practice by the government.
（英国）敕令书（奉王命而实际上由政府向国会提出的文件）
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It is arranged alphabetically by subject and lists in the order of Bills, Command Papers and House of Commons Papers.
The Government has made arrangements for this Command Paper to be available electronically via the Internet.
The Command Paper makes clear that the Government will retain the flexibility to set up future quota-based low-skilled schemes to meet temporary labour shortages.
A list of Command Papers from 2001 onwards is available on this website with links to the Command Papers where known.
This includes House of Commons Bills, House of Commons Papers and Command Papers.
As is stated in ‘Protecting the Public’ (the Command Paper of the Home Office published in November 2002 page 21).
In order to assist searching, departments should consider placing Command Papers in directories named after an individual Command Paper's number.
During the eighteenth century, Command Papers were printed as appendices to the House of Commons Journal.
The series of Command Papers published so far have been numbered as follows.
All Command Papers published from May 2005 onwards are available on the Official Documents site.