Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office: Personnel Department: Registered Files (PER Series)

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Reference: DO 197
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office: Personnel Department: Registered Files (PER Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Establishment and Organisation Division's Personnel Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office. The records are principally concerned with the investigations of the Plowden Committee into the possible integration of the Commonwealth, Foreign and Trade Commission services.
Date: 1962-1965
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PER file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Relations Office, Personnel Department, 1960-1965
Physical description: 52 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Personnel Department was created in 1960. The establishment of the Diplomatic Service Administration Office (DSAO) in January 1965 took over all personnel matters from the Commonwealth Relations Office and led to the Personnel Department being dissolved.

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