Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-68, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the Committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the Committee's procedures and how it perceived its tasks to be studied fully for the first time. The article also considers the question of the precedents for the Fulton type of inquiry into the Civil Service concluding that it was not a unique venture.
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