Catalogue description Export Credits Guarantee Department: Departmental Status Reviews: Papers (SEC and SR prefix)

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Title: Export Credits Guarantee Department: Departmental Status Reviews: Papers (SEC and SR prefix)
Description:

This series comprises papers regarding departmental status reviews of the Export Credit Guarantee Department: ECGD (SEC and SR prefix files).

Series SEC was generally used for material emanating from any type of review of the department. Later reviews, in particular the Mission and Status Review, changed the Series reference to SR.

Files contained include the review by Sir Peter Matthews on the structure, functions and status of ECGD.
Date: 1982-2002
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SEC and SR
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Export Credits Guarantee Department, Chief Executive's Division, 1989-1995

Export Credits Guarantee Department, Project Group, Project Underwriting Divisions and Business Group, 1986-2011

Export Credits Guarantee Department, Secretariat Division, 1974-1988
Physical description: 83 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Export Credits Guarantee Department , from 2015
Selection and destruction information: OSP 49 - Records reflecting the creation/development of key departmental function/structure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Secretariat Division served the Chief Executive Office, and was involved in research, development and co-ordination of departmental policy. The division also provided / produced the minutes of Export Guarantees Advisory Council EGAC and handled publicity and public relations.

Departmental Status Reviews:

In 1984, Sir Peter Matthews was appointed to advise the Minister for Trade on the structure, functions and status of ECGD. Following his review, his report recommended that ECGD should be reconstituted as Statutory Corporation but this was not accepted by the Government.

A further internal study conducted by Mr Fred Chapman (no surviving files available).

In 1988 a review commissioned by the Secretary Department of Trade and Industry and led by Mr Robert Kemp and published in 1989 led to fundamental changes, and the privatisation of the Insurance Services Group followed as a consequence in 1991.

In 1999 the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry commissioned a fundamental review of ECGD's mission and status; the aim was to ensure ECGD was fit and ready for the next Millennium and it looked at objectives, role and status. It was published in 2000, the conclusion of which transformed the operation of ECGD.

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