Catalogue description Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Minutes and Papers (GEN, MISC and REF Series)

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Reference: CAB 130
Title: Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Minutes and Papers (GEN, MISC and REF Series)
Description:

This series consists of the minutes and papers of various Cabinet committees from 1945.

Date: 1945-2003
Arrangement:

From 1945 to 1964 (the beginning of the Attlee administration to the end of the Douglas-Home administration) there is one ascending GEN sequence from 1 to 881; from 1964 to 1970 (the Wilson administrations) the sequence is MISC 1 to 271; from 1970 the sequence reverts to start from GEN 1 again. Arrangement is generally chronological year by year and within years by ascending order of GEN or MISC numbers.

Related material:

For earlier files in the same series see CAB 78

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GEN, MISC and REF Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cabinet Office, 1916-

Physical description: 1613 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1975 Cabinet Office

Selection and destruction information: All Cabinet committee minutes and papers are selected for permanent preservation
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background: This series consists of the minutes and papers of various Cabinet committees from 1945.

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