Catalogue description HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Public Enterprise Group, Communications, Steel and Aviation Industries Division: ACW (Air, Cable and Wireless) prefix records

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Reference: T 452
Title: HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Public Enterprise Group, Communications, Steel and Aviation Industries Division: ACW (Air, Cable and Wireless) prefix records
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Communications, Steel and Aviation Industries Division (ACW prefix records).

ACW prefix denotes the theme Aviation, Cable and Wireless and concerns specific economic policy on the Civil Aviation Authority and the then publically owned Cable and Wireless Company. This prefix does not seem to cover the economic policy towards the nationalised steel industries.
Date: 1981
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ACW
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Domestic Economy Sector, 1975-
Physical description: 34 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2013 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1981 to 1983
Selection and destruction information: Acquisition Policy theme 3.1.1 - management of government revenues and expenditure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Communications, Steel and Aviation Industries Division was formed in 1981 under the Public Enterprise Group and thereunder the HM Treasury Domestic Economy Sector.

The Division was responsible for managing economic policy towards the following nationalised bodies and industries: Post Office telecommunications role; British Steel Corporation; British Airways Board; British Airways Authority; Civil Aviation Authority; Local Authority Airports; other civil aviation services and Cable and Wireless.

Two sibling divisions existed under the Public Enterprise Group: Energy Division covering nationalised energy industries, North Sea oil and energy policy; Transport Industries and General Policy Division covering nationalised transport industries, ports and nationalised industries general policy.

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