Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Berridge on 16 March (HL13849), for what reasons they redacted the section entitled ‘Terms of Reference and ways of working’ in the contract of the chair of the independent review of the children’s social care sector.
It is usual practice, in line with The Cabinet Manual, to redact contracts where information is included relating to Cabinet agreement.
The Cabinet Manual can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-manual.