Catalogue description Civil Service Department: Machinery of Government Group: Machinery of Government (MG Series) Files

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Reference: BA 17
Title: Civil Service Department: Machinery of Government Group: Machinery of Government (MG Series) Files
Description:

Files of the Machinery of Government Group relating to a wide range of issues, including organisation of central and local government; review and hiving-off of departmental functions; dispersal of the Civil Service outside London; enquiries into the legislative process, etc.

Date: 1956-1990
Related material:

Earlier machinery of government files are in T 222

There is also related material in T 330

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MG file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Civil Service Department, Personnel Services Divisions, Machinery of Government Group, 1969-1974

Physical description: 1460 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2000 Cabinet Office

Selection and destruction information: The MG file series included files on changes to central government organisational structures which were identified for permanent preservation at second review in accordance with the published PRO acquisition policy (paragraph 2.2).
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

From 1942 the ministerial Machinery of Government Committee assisted by official committees dealt with machinery of government questions; at the end of 1945 the Ministerial Committee decided that the Treasury should accept the responsibility and a small MG section was set up; in 1947 it was incorporated into the Organisation and Methods Section. In 1968 the machinery of government function passed to the new Civil Service Department.

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