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Catalogue description Civil Service Department: Lord Armstrong, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Civil Service Department: Papers
| Reference: | BA 6 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Civil Service Department: Lord Armstrong, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Civil Service Department: Papers |
| Description: |
The files in this series of Sir William Armstrong's papers deal mainly with economic policy matters after 1971, including counter-inflation policy and regional industrial policy, together with papers on the machinery of government and general election of February 1974. The series also includes files of his radio and television interviews, lectures etc. in this period which were donated by Lord Armstrong. Some files on counter-inflation measures reregistered for use by Armstrong's successor, Sir Douglas Allen, have been restored to their original sequence. |
| Date: | 1968-1974 |
| Arrangement: |
Chronological within subject headings |
| Separated material: |
Some files created by Armstrong were continued by his successor, Sir Douglas Allen; see BA 7 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Sir William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead, 1915-1980 |
| Physical description: | 97 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Management and Personnel Office from 1981 Civil Service Department from 1981 Cabinet Office, Management and Personnel Office from 1981 |
| Custodial history: | Files passed to the Management and Personnel Office on the abolition of the Civil Service Department in 1981. |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Sir William Armstrong was Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department from November 1968 to his retirement in June 1974. Armstrong was a career civil servant, who had risen to become Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury in 1962, and then, the first Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department in 1968. He was appointed by Prime Minister, Edward Heath, to head a small group of civil servants advising the government on economic policy issues. Armstrong was later deeply involved in the talks on incomes policy between the Government, Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress. Armstrong was made a life peer in 1975. He died in 1980. |
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