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BL - Council on Tribunals and successors

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EH - Pay Board

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FV - Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974

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HW - Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

HY - Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce

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JH - Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

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KF - Inquiry into Exports of Defence Equipment to Iraq and Related Prosecutions (Scott Inquiry)

KT - Office for Standards in Education

KX - Historic Royal Palaces Agency

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LCO - Lord Chancellor's Office

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LEV - Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press (Leveson Inquiry)

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LV - Friendly Societies Commission

LX - Contributions Agency

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MFQ - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments held at the Public Record Office, Kew

MM - Millennium Commission

MPDD - Treasury: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPE - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPF - State Paper Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPG - Colonial Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPL - Court of Common Pleas: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPLL - Court of Common Pleas: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPM - Flat maps and drawings of special interest

MPN - Court of King's Bench: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPO - Forestry Commission maps and plans

MPR - RAIL flat maps

AE - Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)

AF - Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England and Wales

AM - Parliamentary Counsel's Office

ASI - Inquiry into allegations of human rights abuse of Iraqi nationals by British troops in the aftermath of the'battle of Danny Boy' (The Al-Sweady Inquiry)

BE - Iron and Steel Corporation

BIS - Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

BT - Board of Trade and successors

BX - Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation

C - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions

CAB - Cabinet Office

CES - UK Commission for Employment and Skills and related bodies

CHES - Palatinate of Chester, including the county of Flint

CLG - Department of Communities and Local Government

CRES - The Crown Estate and predecessors

CSC - Civil Service Commission

CWG - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

DK - National Ports Council

DL - Duchy of Lancaster

DO - Dominions Office, and Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices

DURH - Palatinate of Durham

DV - Central Midwives Board

DX - Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training

ECG - Export Credit Guarantee Department

ED - Department of Education and Science

EJ - Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations

ES - Atomic Weapons Establishment

EY - Social Science Research Council

FA - Office of Gas Supply (OFGAS)

FB - Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges

FG - National Economic Development Council and National Economic Development Office

FL - Adult Literacy Resource Agency

FT - Nature Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy Council and English Nature

HB - Office of Electricity Regulation

HCA - High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts

HF - Ministry of Technology

HWA - Highways Agency

JD - Monopolies and Mergers Commission

JF - Department of Prices and Consumer Protection

JV - Milk Marketing Board

JX - Data Protection Registrar and Successors

KD - Coal Authority

KJ - Government Property Lawyers

KW - Royal Parks Agency

LAB - Departments responsible for labour and employment matters

LC - Lord Chamberlain and other officers of the Royal Household

LD - Office of Fair Trading

LM - Department of Transport

LN - Building Societies Commission

LOC - London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)

LT - Lands Tribunal

MF - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments

MH - Ministry of Health

MPD - Treasury: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPGG - Colonial Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPKK - Foreign Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPNN - Court of King's Bench: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPS - British Transport Historical Record Office: maps, plans and surveys

MRC - Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various departments formerly held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane

NB - Benefits Agency

NC - National Lottery Charities Board and the Community Fund

NCC - National Consumer Council

NDO - National Debt Office

NICO - National Incomes Commission

NOMS - National Offender Management Service

A - Alienation Office

AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

ASSI - Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius

AT - Various departments for environment, transport, communities, and local government

AVIA - Ministry of Aviation

B - Bankruptcy and debt relief courts

BJ - Meteorological Office

BLK - Business Link

BM - Disabled Persons Employment Corporation Ltd and Remploy Ltd

BP - The Royal Fine Art Commission

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BV - Parole Board

BW - British Council

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CB - National Playing Fields Association

CCW - Consumer Council for Water

CE - British Museum

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CM - Property Services Agency

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CY - Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

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DD - Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales

DEL - High Court of Delegates

DF - Natural History Museum

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DN - Public Health Laboratory Service Board

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DT - General Nursing Council for England and Wales

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DW - Council for the Training of Health Visitors

DY - Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies

EA - National Council, and Council, for Educational Technology

EF - Health and Safety Commission and Executive

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EM - Special Commissioners of Income Tax

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EP - Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art

ER - Standing Civilian Courts

ET - Manpower Services Commission

EV - Science and Engineering Research Council

F - Forestry Commission

FEC - Forfeited Estates Commission

FERA - Food and Environment Research Agency

FH - National Bus Company

FM - Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage)

FN - Pilotage Commission

FP - Health Education Council and Health Education Authority

FS - Registry of Friendly Societies

FW - National Curriculum Council

GFM - Copies of captured records of the German, Italian and Japanese Governments.

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HA - Natural Environment Research Council

HD - Secret Intelligence Service

HS - Special Operations Executive

HV - Crown Estate Paving Commission

HX - Civil Service Occupational Health Service and Civil Service Occupational Health and Safety Agency

NPL - National Physical Laboratory

NT - Inquiry into the Matters Arising from the Death of Stephen Lawrence

OCM - Ofcom (the Office of Communications)

PEV - Court of the Honour of Peveril

PF - Department for Culture, Media and Sport

PITA - Inquiry into Human Tissue Analysis in UK Nuclear Facilities (Redfern Inquiry)

PSO - Keeper of the Privy Seal

PV - Department of Industry (1974-1983)

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RF - Insolvency Service

RM - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

SC - Special Collections: records of various departments, arranged according to type

SJ - Gas and Electricity Consumer Council (Energywatch)

SL - Inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed

SLC - Student Loans Company Ltd

SR - Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

SW - Natural England

TCC - Post Office Corporation (Telecommunications Division)

TCD - British Telecommunications (public corporation)

TITH - Tithe Commission and successors

UGC - Higher Education Funding Council for England

UKSC - The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

VOSA - Vehicle and Operator Services Agency

WA - National Assembly for Wales

WARD - Court of Wards and Liveries

WM - National Weights and Measures Laboratory

ZHC - Publications of the House of Commons

ZPER - British Transport Historical Records Office library: periodicals

ZWEB - Regularly Archived Government Websites

IBS - Reserved for forthcoming transfer

IND - Indexes to various series

INF - Central Office of Information

J - Supreme Court of Judicature

JA - Department of Health

JB - Department for Work and Pensions

JM - Further Education and Higher Education Funding Councils for Wales

JUST - Records of itinerant justices and other court records

KA - Office of Passenger Rail Franchising

KB - Court of King's Bench

KC - School Examinations and Assessment Council

KE - Royal Air Force Museum

KH - Special Educational Needs Tribunal

KM - Food Standards Agency

KS - Radiocommunications Agency

LAR - Land Registry

LJ - Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils

LK - Police Complaints Authority and Police Complaints Board

LO - Law Officers' Department

LP - Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

LRRO - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments

LS - Lord Steward, the Board of Green Cloth

LSIS - Learning and Skills Improvement Service

MAF - Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments

MONW - Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire

MPAA - Chancery: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPB - Exchequer: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPC - Duchy of Lancaster: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPCC - Duchy of Lancaster: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPI - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of departments not assigned an individual map extract prefix

MPP - Cabinet Office flat maps

MPQ - Privy Council: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPZ - Maps and plans extracted from records of various departments

NATS - Ministry of National Service

NDA - Records of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its predecessors

NE - Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work

NIA - National Insurance Audit Department

NJ - Office of Manpower Economics

NMM - National Maritime Museum

NR - Central Rail Users Consultative Committee

NV - Department for Education and Employment

NW - Interception of Communications Act Commissioner

OD - Department of Technical Co-operation, and successive Overseas Development bodies

OLD - Olympic Lottery Distributor

PB - Teacher Training Agency and Successors

PC - Privy Council

PCAP - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

PCOM - Prison Commission and Home Office Prison Department

PD - New Millennium Experience Company

PMG - Paymaster General's Office and predecessors

POWE - Ministry of Power

PREM - Prime Minister's Office

PX - Postal Services Commission

RB - Adult Learning Inspectorate

RECO - Ministry of Reconstruction

RH - Department for Children, Schools and Families and Successor

RW - The National Archives

SB - The Pensions Regulator

SCOT - Scottish Administration

SE - Chemical Regulations Directorate

SO - Signet Office

STAT - Stationery Office

TG - Tate Gallery

VC - The Victoria Climbié Inquiry

ADM - Admiralty, Navy, Royal Marines, and Coastguard

AH - Location of Offices Bureau

AK - County Courts

AO - National Audit Office and predecessors

AP - Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust

AST - Unemployment Assistance Boards

AW - British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corporation

BC - Law Commission

BD - Welsh Office

BH - Hudson's Bay Company Archives

BN - Department of Health and Social Security

CA - Countryside Agency and successors

CD - Cinematograph films

CF - National Health Service hospitals

CJ - Northern Ireland Office

CL - Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers' Associations

COAL - National Coal Board and predecessors, and related bodies

CP - Court of Common Pleas

CT - National Insurance Commissioners and the Social Security Commissioners

CUST - Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue and Customs

CW - Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

DB - Council for National Academic Awards

DC - London Museum

DEFE - Ministry of Defence

DG - International Organisations

DH - Records of the British Library and the British Museum Library

DJ - Post Office Users' National Council

DSIR - Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

EC - Electoral Commission

ECCL - Ecclesiastical Commission

EL - Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and Arts Council of Great Britain

EW - Department of Economic Affairs

FD - Medical Research Council

FJ - Commission for the New Towns

FK - Office of the Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning

FO - Foreign Office

FR - Legal Aid Board, the Legal Services Commission, and predecessors

GEO - Government Equalities Office

GT - General Teaching Council for England

HE - English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

HK - Museums Association

HLG - Ministry of Housing and Local Government

HO - Home Office

HT - Commission for Local Administration in England

ILB - Coroner's Inquests into the London Bombings of 7 July 2005

IPSA - Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

IR - Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue

JC - Office of Water Services (Ofwat) and the Water Services Regulation Authority

JK - Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales

JL - Curriculum Council for Wales and the Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales

JN - Committee on Standards in Public Life and related bodies

JR - Office of the Rail Regulator

JS - Further Education Funding Council for England

KL - Funding Agency for Schools

KN - United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

KP - Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

KR - Joint Nature Conservation Committee

KV - Security Service

KY - National Council for Vocational Qualifications

LE - The Court Service and Successors

LF - Office of Telecommunications (Oftel)

LH - Women's National Commission

LY - Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission

MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency

VL - Central Veterinary Laboratory and Veterinary Laboratories Agency

WALE - Legal Records Relating to Wales

WO - War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies

WORK - Office of Works and successors

ZLIB - British Transport Historical Records Office: publications

LITV - Inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko: Evidence, Correspondence and Report

EDG - Employment Department, Training Agency

MFC - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments formerly held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane

MHRA - Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

MINT - Royal Mint

MJ - Ministry of Justice

MPA - Chancery: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPBB - Exchequer: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPEE - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPFF - State Paper Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPH - War Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPHH - War Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPII - Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from records of departments not assigned an individual map prefix

MPK - Foreign Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MPQQ - Privy Council: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage

MPT - British Transport Commission: maps and plans extracted to flat storage

MRQ - Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various departments held at the Public Record Office, Kew

MT - Ministries of Transport and related bodies

NG - National Gallery

NH - Countryside Council for Wales

NL - Independent Commission on the Voting System

OBS - Obsolete lists and indexes

OS - Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

OSA - Office of the Schools Adjudicator

PALA - Records of the Palace Court

PH - Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work

PHSO - Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

PL - Palatinate of Lancaster

PROB - Prerogative Court of Canterbury

PWLB - Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Board

RD - Environment Agency

REQ - Court of Requests

RGO - Royal Greenwich Observatory

RJ - Department created in anticipation of records to be transferred

RP - Radio Authority

RS - Records originally intended for this code are now in JT

RT - Commission for Africa

SD - Zahid Mubarek Inquiry

SF - Statistics Commission

SK - Consumer Council for Postal Services (PostWatch)

SP - State Paper Office, including papers of the Secretaries of State up to 1782

ST - Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

SU - Department of Energy and Climate Change

TCK - Private collections of telecommunications related records held by BT Archives

TS - Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General's Department

TV - Television Authority and the Independent Broadcasting Authority

UKTI - UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)

VCA - Vehicle Certification Agency

ZJ - London Gazettes

ZMAP - Maps and plans formerly held by the Public Record Office Library

MR - Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various departments

MUN - Ministry of Munitions and successors

NF - Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations

NK - Department of Trade and Industry (1983-2007)

NP - Office of the President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals, Medical Appeal Tribunals and Vaccine Damage Tribunals and Independent Tribunal Service

NSC - National Savings Committee, the Post Office Savings Department and the Department for National Savings

NX - Security Service Act Commissioner

NY - Intelligence Services Act Commissioner

OPG - Office of the Public Guardian

PIN - Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance

PJ - Department of Trade, 1974-1983

PN - Inquiry into BSE

POST - Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors

PP - Keeper of the Privy Purse

PRIS - King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons

PRO - Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts

PT - Public Trustee Office

PY - Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM)

QAB - Queen Anne's Bounty

QLIB - Resource Centre and Library stores material sent off-site for storage

QLX - List and Index Society store material sent off-site for storage

RAIL - Pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and related companies

RC - Learning and Skills Council

RG - General Register Office, Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys

RV - Report of the Committee of Privy Counsellors appointed to consider authorised procedures for the interrogation of persons suspected of terrorism (Parker Inquiry)

SA - Commission for Judicial Appointments and Successors

SH - Equal Opportunities Commission

STAC - Court of Star Chamber and of other courts

SUPP - Ministry of Supply and successors and the Ordnance Board

T - HM Treasury

TCB - Post Office telegraph and telephone service

TR - Tribunals Service

ZBOX - Unfinished and unpublished texts, calendars and finding aids

ZHL - Publications of the House of Lords

ZOS - Publications of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

ZSPC - British Transport Historical Records Office library: publications

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