>> All government department discuss, plan and act on very sensitive information which may cover military,
>> commercial, economic, policy issues.
The protective marking system seems to have changed since I left the Civil Service. My recollection in the Justice Ministry was that a lot of stuff was marked Restricted.
That mark would be followed by a category such as Policy, Appointments (eg recruitment of Quango Members) or Honours (people being put up for gongs). There were more than just three descriptors I think there was a defined list but I cannot recall all of them. Two others were Staff (eg personnel records - what used to be Staff in Confidence) and Commercial/Contracts.
Extremely sensitive stuff, for example Judicial Appointments or Discipline, might have been Secret but I cannot remember stuff I'd see once in a blue moon at 8 years distance.
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