James
Hacker, Minister of Administrative Affairs (played by Paul Eddington): “When am I
going to do all this correspondence?”
Aide
Bernard Woolley (played
by Derek Fowlds): “You do realize you don't actually have to, Minister.”
Hacker:
“Don't I?”
Woolley:
“Not if you don't want to. We can draft an official reply.”
Hacker:
“What's an official reply?”
Woolley:
“It just says ‘The Minister has asked me to thank you for your letter’; then we
say something like ‘The matter is under consideration,’ or even, if we feel so
inclined, ‘under active consideration.”"
Hacker:
“What's the difference?”
Woolley:
“Well, 'under consideration' means we've lost the file; 'under active consideration'
means we're trying to find it.”-- Yes Minister,
Season 1, Episode 2, “The Official Visit,” original air date March 3, 1980,
teleplay by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, produced by Sydney Lotterby
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