Hopefully, some of the useful initiatives in the directives will have the effect of actually reducing the number of requests or speeding them up, so there could be beneficial effects. Like you, I don't think there is a relationship between what is being proposed in the directives and the fact that nobody outside of the officials claiming that a document is a cabinet document ever gets to take a look at it and speak authoritatively to say, “Yes, it is” or “No, I don't think so” or “Are you saying this is a cabinet document because you put it on a trolley and ran it through the cabinet room?”
There are a number of discrete issues. I don't think the directives will affect things like order-making power or cabinet exclusion.