Written ministerial statements (WMS) Guide

3. Delivery

On the day of release the text of the statement gets sent electronically to both House Libraries, between 9.30am and 12.30pm and hard copies are provided simultaneously to the main House sources.

Electronic documents

If the statement announces a document available electronically, include the ACME web address for it. Email the document to the parliamentary team in: MS Word, PDF, Excel, jpg, tif, gif, raw, rtf, PowerPoint or txt.  The document will be forwarded simultaneously to the statement being released.

Contact IT team to get the electronic document published on the ACME website after the statement has been released.

Bulk copies

If the document is high profile, bulk hard copies may need to be made available to Members and Peers. This could run to a minimum of 60 copies.