Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Business Rents Division and successors; Registered Files (BRD Series)

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Reference: AT 77
Title: Department of the Environment: Business Rents Division and successors; Registered Files (BRD Series)
Description:

These records deal with the Department of the Environment's administration of the Business Rent Order which froze business rents at their 1972 level.

Date: 1972-1973
Arrangement:

Files will be presented in former reference order, thereby reflecting their former administrative arrangement.

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

Department of the Environment, Business Rents Division, 1973-1974

Physical description: 1 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Custodial history: From 1991 to 1997 the records were housed at the Department of the Environment; from 1997 to 2001 they were with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and from 2001 to the time they were transferred to PRO, they were with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Selection and destruction information: The files were selected on the basis that they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individual, communities and organisations outsides its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's acquisition policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Business Rents Division was set up in 1973 and was responsible for the application the government's counter-inflation policy and the administration of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

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