Catalogue description Records of Administrative Departments

Details of Division within DEFE
Reference: Division within DEFE
Title: Records of Administrative Departments
Description:

This group contains records created and accumulated by the administrative sections of the ministry, dating from the reorganisations of 1964 and 1967.

Minutes and papers of the major committees and working parties are in DEFE 10. Their registered files are in DEFE 27.

Private Office registered files are in DEFE 13.

Army Department, Industrial Council minutes are in DEFE 18.

Papers of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence are in DEFE 23, with those of the Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Defence Secretariat) in DEFE 47. Registered files of the Defence Secretariat are in DEFE 24.

Establishment registered files are in DEFE 29.

Selected civilian personal files are in DEFE 34.

Navy pay and finance files are in DEFE 49 and DEFE 50.

Files and reports of RAF Strike Command are in DEFE 58.

Registered files and branch folders of the MOD Central Staffs are in DEFE 68.

Registered files and branch folders of MOD(Navy) are in DEFE 69; those of MOD(Army) are in DEFE 70; those of the MOD(Air) are in DEFE 71.

Registered files and branch folders of the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence (MOD PE) are in DEFE 72.

Publications issued by MOD Headquarters and by Joint Service Command are in DEFE 73.

Defence Services Secretariat: Recommendations for Honours and Awards for Gallant and Distinguished Service files are in DEFE 74.

Air Ministry and Successors: Airfield Site Plans are in DEFE 221
Date: 1869-2007
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 19 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Many of these records date from the 1964 reorganization of the Ministry of Defence which saw the creation of a Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence and the creation of the Defence Secretariat. The latter was organised into three major sections which ran across all three of the services: programmes and budget, policy and administration. The Secretariat had responsibility for co-ordinating work between departments and acted as the nerve centre of the entire ministry, bringing together civil administration staff from the pre-1964 ministry and the three service departments. Four second permanent under secretaries were also appointed, one for each new service department and one to head/act as secretary to the Defence Secretariat.

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