Catalogue description Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical, Chemical and Materials Division and successors: Registered Files (CG Series)

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Reference: FV 55
Title: Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical, Chemical and Materials Division and successors: Registered Files (CG Series)
Description:

These files cover the financial and administrative aspects of the division's activities relating to the shipbuilding industry. For many aspects of the division's activities, there were separate files dealing first with policy, contractual and casework and, separately, with financial details such as payment of government assistance. It was the latter, dealt with by the division's administrative and finance section, which was the subject of files in the CG series.
Date: 1965-1977
Arrangement:

By former file reference number
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CG Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 4 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1999 Department of Trade and Industry
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Ministry of Technology's Electrical, Chemical and Materials Division appears to have originated about 1964. It went through minor changes up to 1970, when as the Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division it was transferred to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The divisional name was changed to Shipbuilding and Process Plant Division in early 1971 and to Shipbuilding Policy Division later that year. From 1974, the division was part of the Department of Industry, becoming part of the DTI again in 1984. Further reorganisation resulted in the division being renamed Shipbuilding and Electrical Engineering (SEE) Division in 1986 and Engineering Markets (EM) Division in 1988.

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