The Research Activity of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-1968

Abstract

Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-1968, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the Committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the manner in which the Committee organised its research activity to be studied fully for the first time. The article shows that the Fulton Committee did not orgainise its research activity in a systematic manner, though its associated researchers did do so, and the article traces in detail the progress of the social Survey of the Civil Service that the Committee commissioned.