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Note that references to Woodhouse are to D Woodhouse, ‘Ministerial responsibility: something old, something new’ [1997] PL 262; references to ‘the Scott Report’ are to Sir Richard Scott, Inquiry into Exports of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions (HC 115-1, 1995-96); and references to the Public Service Committee are to its second Report (HC 231, 1995-96), unless otherwise stated. The 2007 London School of Economics Study may be found online at https://www2.lse. ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2007/MinisterialResignations.aspx. References to the Butler Report are to Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction HC 898 (2003-04); to Chilcot are to the Inquiry established in 2009 and ongoing: https://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk.