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Command paper or House of Commons/Lords paper

In the citation, always use the name of the Government organisation/department/comittee in place of that of an individual author. When the organisation name is not mentioned in the text, the ciation consists of the organisation's name and the year of publication in brackets.

Example:

According to a recent report, flu jabs are as important as travel vaccines (Department of Health, 2017).

If you have already named the organisation in the text, only the publication year needs to be mentioned in brackets.

Example:

A recent report by the Department of Health (2017) emphasised that flu jabs are as important as travel vaccines.