Cabinet Office to offer to pay cost of continuing to expend goat and calf skin after peers called for switch to archive paperThe 1000-year-old practice of printing laws on goat and calf skin may be saved, after the House of Lords said it would consider an offer from the Cabinet Office to pay the costs of carrying on the tradition.
An outcry was prompted among some MPs after peers signalled their intention to conclude the method of recording each act of parliament on vellum and expend archive paper instead.
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Source: theguardian.com