United Kingdom Cabinet Committee - Historical Statistics

Historical Statistics

An approximate count of committees up to and during the Second World War was given by Wilson as follows.

Period Parent body Number of committees Aggregate number of meetings
1917–1922 Cabinet 160 990
Committee of Imperial Defence 11 120
1923-September 1939 Cabinet 379 1990
Committee of Imperial Defence 275 3400
Committee on Civil Research and Economic Advisory Council 70 900
September 1939-July 1945 War Cabinet 292 5440
Chiefs of Staff 45 3050
Ad-hoc committees 90 210

This excludes committees which did not have at least one meeting (several of these existed solely as a means for documents to be circulated among the members). The 1939-45 figures do not include the Joint Intelligence Committee, Joint Planning Staff, or the Combined Chiefs of Staff.

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