Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Management Services Division, Branch 1: Review of Non-Departmental Bodies: Registered Files (MSQ Series)

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Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Management Services Division, Branch 1: Review of Non-Departmental Bodies: Registered Files (MSQ Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files (MSQ Series) on the Review of Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) carried out by Sir Leo Pliatzky from 1979 to 1980.
Date: 1979-1995
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MSQ Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Establishment and Organisation and Methods Divisions, 1919-1955

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Establishment and Organisation Department, 1955-1969

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Establishment Department, 1969-1997
Physical description: 169 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Custodial history: The records were held by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) until 2001, when the department was renamed as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Accumulation dates: Series opened in 1979
Selection and destruction information: These files were selected according to The National Archives Acquisition and Disposition Policy 3.2.2
Accruals: This series is accruing
Publication note:

For further information on administrative background and related series, see Sir John Winnifrith, The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (New Whitehall Series, No 11, 1962) and Loaves and Fishes, an illustrated history of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1889-1989 by Susan Foreman, HMSO Dd 290759 C60 3/89. Command Paper 7797,http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
Administrative / biographical background:

Management Services Division 1 covered the administration of MAFF Headquarters, including the Management Board, the Research Laboratories, manpower control, pay, and organisation and methods.

Review of Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs):

The review was commissioned by the new Prime Minister in 1979 into those organisations carrying out service delivery functions on behalf of government departments. The review was carried out by Sir Leo Pliatzky, recently retired, who had been Second Permanent Secretary in the Treasury.

MAFF Divisions were requested to supply information about the NDPBs for which they were responsible via the Management Services Division 1 which was then submitted to the Management Board for onward transmission to Sir Leo Pliatzky.

The final report was published under Command Paper 7797 in 1980. As a result it was decided that annual reports on the work of the NDPBs should be completed with government departments supplying information to the Civil Service Department, who would be responsible for co-ordinating and publishing the final review.

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