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Red boxes or sometimes ministerial boxes, are a type of despatch boxes produced by Barrow & Gale and are used by ministers in the British government and the British monarch to carry government documents. Similar in appearance to a briefcase, they are primarily used to hold and transport official departmental papers from place to place. Red boxes are one modern form of despatch boxes, which have been in government use for centuries. Despatch boxes of a considerably different design remain in use in the lower house chamber of the British and Australian parliaments; these boxes hold religious books, but are also used as lecterns by front bench members.