Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Parliamentary Questions and Answers, Files

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Reference: ED 34
Title: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Parliamentary Questions and Answers, Files
Description:

Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science files of information drawn together for the purpose of providing answers to Parliamentary questions addressed to the Secretary of State for Education and Science in the House of Commons, and HM Government in the House of Lords on education matters.

A small number of papers concern questions addressed to the Prime Minister and other ministers.

Briefs prepared for answering Parliamentary Questions and Supplementary Questions are based on administrative and professional advice usually recorded on the relevant subject series of registered papers. Where such material is not readily available, or it is recorded solely on the series of Parliamentary Questions Papers, the latter, since 1945, have been preserved.

Date: 1944-1992
Arrangement:

The papers are arranged in chronological order under questions put down in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, 1964-1992

Ministry of Education, 1944-1964

Physical description: 358 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Selection and destruction information: Items selected often relate to controversial matters, in those cases where the information could not easily be obtained from the registered files series.

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