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Department

A - Alienation Office
AB - UK Atomic Energy Authority
ACT - Government Actuary's Department
ADM - Admiralty, Navy, Royal Marines, and Coastguard
AE - Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
AF - Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England and Wales
AH - Location of Offices Bureau
AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
AIR - Air Ministry and Royal Air Force records
AJ - Consumer Council
AK - County Courts
AM - Parliamentary Counsel's Office
AN - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board
AO - National Audit Office and predecessors
AP - Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust
AR - The Wallace Collection
ASSI - Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
AST - Unemployment Assistance Boards
AT - Various departments for environment, transport, communities, and local government
AVIA - Ministry of Aviation
AW - British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corporation
AX - Local Government Boundary Commission for England
AY - Various Research Institutes and Councils
B - Bankruptcy and debt relief courts
BA - Civil Service Department
BC - Law Commission
BD - Welsh Office
BE - Iron and Steel Corporation
BF - Pensions Appeal Tribunals
BH - Hudson's Bay Company Archives
BIS - Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
BJ - Meteorological Office
BK - National Dock Labour Corporation and National Dock Labour Board
BL - Council on Tribunals and successors
BLK - Business Link
BM - Disabled Persons Employment Corporation Ltd and Remploy Ltd
BN - Department of Health and Social Security
BP - The Royal Fine Art Commission
BPC - British Potato Council
BR - British Transport Docks Board
BS - Records of defunct temporary bodies
BT - Board of Trade and successors
BV - Parole Board
BW - British Council
BX - Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation
BY - National Portrait Gallery
C - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
CA - Countryside Agency and successors
CAB - Cabinet Office
CABE - Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
CAOG - Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations
CB - National Playing Fields Association
CCW - Consumer Council for Water
CD - Cinematograph films
CE - British Museum
CEF - Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
CES - UK Commission for Employment and Skills and related bodies
CF - National Health Service hospitals
CHAR - Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
CHES - Palatinate of Chester, including the county of Flint
CJ - Northern Ireland Office
CK - Commission for Racial Equality and predecessors
CL - Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers' Associations
CLG - Department of Communities and Local Government
CM - Property Services Agency
CN - Photographic prints and negatives extracted from various record series
CO - Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices
COAL - National Coal Board and predecessors, and related bodies
COPY - Copyright Office and Stationers' Company
COU - National Parks Commission and the Countryside Commission
CP - Court of Common Pleas
CPS - Crown Prosecution Service
CRES - The Crown Estate and predecessors
CRIM - Central Criminal Court
CSC - Civil Service Commission
CSPR - Civil Service Pay Research Unit
CT - National Insurance Commissioners and the Social Security Commissioners
CUST - Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue and Customs
CV - Value Added Tax Tribunals
CW - Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
CWG - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
CX - Price Commission
CY - Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
D - Rural Development Commission and predecessors
DB - Council for National Academic Awards
DC - London Museum
DD - Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales
DEFE - Ministry of Defence
DEL - High Court of Delegates
DF - Natural History Museum
DFT - Department for Transport
DG - International Organisations
DGOV - Directgov
DH - Records of the British Library and the British Museum Library
DJ - Post Office Users' National Council
DK - National Ports Council
DL - Duchy of Lancaster
DM - Occupational Pensions Board
DN - Public Health Laboratory Service Board
DO - Dominions Office, and Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices
DPP - Director of Public Prosecutions
DR - Civil Aviation Authority
DSA - Driving Standards Agency
DSIR - Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
DT - General Nursing Council for England and Wales
DURH - Palatinate of Durham
DV - Central Midwives Board
DVLA - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DW - Council for the Training of Health Visitors
DX - Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training
DY - Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies
E - Exchequer, Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
EA - National Council, and Council, for Educational Technology
EB - Commission on Museums and Galleries
EC - Electoral Commission
ECCL - Ecclesiastical Commission
ECG - Export Credit Guarantee Department
ED - Department of Education and Science
EF - Health and Safety Commission and Executive
EG - Department of Energy
EH - Pay Board
EJ - Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations
EL - Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and Arts Council of Great Britain
EM - Special Commissioners of Income Tax
EN - Imperial War Museum
EP - Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art
ER - Standing Civilian Courts
ES - Atomic Weapons Establishment
ET - Manpower Services Commission
EV - Science and Engineering Research Council
EW - Department of Economic Affairs
EXT - Documents and objects extracted from various record series
EY - Social Science Research Council
F - Forestry Commission
FA - Office of Gas Supply (OFGAS)
FB - Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges
FCO - Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors
FD - Medical Research Council
FEC - Forfeited Estates Commission
FERA - Food and Environment Research Agency
FG - National Economic Development Council and National Economic Development Office
FH - National Bus Company
FJ - Commission for the New Towns
FK - Office of the Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning
FL - Adult Literacy Resource Agency
FM - Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage)
FN - Pilotage Commission
FO - Foreign Office
FP - Health Education Council and Health Education Authority
FR - Legal Aid Board, the Legal Services Commission, and predecessors
FS - Registry of Friendly Societies
FT - Nature Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy Council and English Nature
FV - Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974
FW - National Curriculum Council
FY - Potato Marketing Boards
GCDA - Government Car and Despatch Agency
GEO - Government Equalities Office
GFM - Copies of captured records of the German, Italian and Japanese Governments.
GIRO - National Girobank and Predecessors
HA - Natural Environment Research Council
HB - Office of Electricity Regulation
HCA - High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
HD - Secret Intelligence Service
HE - English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
HF - Ministry of Technology
HK - Museums Association
HLG - Ministry of Housing and Local Government
HMC - Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
HN - Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
HO - Home Office
HP - National Radiological Protection Board
HR - Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
HS - Special Operations Executive
HT - Commission for Local Administration in England
HV - Crown Estate Paving Commission
HW - Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
HWA - Highways Agency
HX - Civil Service Occupational Health Service and Civil Service Occupational Health and Safety Agency
HY - Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce
IBS - Reserved for forthcoming transfer
ILB - Reserved for forthcoming transfer
IND - Indexes to various series
INF - Central Office of Information
IPSA - Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
IR - Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue
J - Supreme Court of Judicature
JA - Department of Health
JB - Department for Work and Pensions
JC - Office of Water Services (Ofwat) and the Water Services Regulation Authority
JD - Monopolies and Mergers Commission
JE - Office of the National Lottery
JF - Department of Prices and Consumer Protection
JH - Ministry of Land and Natural Resources
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
JM - Further Education and Higher Education Funding Councils for Wales
JN - Committee on Standards in Public Life and related bodies
JP - The Adjudicators Office
JR - Office of the Rail Regulator
JS - Further Education Funding Council for England
JT - Local Government Commission for England
JUST - Records of itinerant justices and other court records
JV - Milk Marketing Board
JW - Metrication Board
JX - Data Protection Registrar and Successors
JY - Civil Service College
KA - Office of Passenger Rail Franchising
KB - Court of King's Bench
KC - School Examinations and Assessment Council
KD - Coal Authority
KE - Royal Air Force Museum
KF - Inquiry into Exports of Defence Equipment to Iraq and Related Prosecutions (Scott Inquiry)
KH - Special Educational Needs Tribunal
KJ - Government Property Lawyers
KL - Funding Agency for Schools
KM - Food Standards Agency
KN - United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
KP - Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct
KR - Joint Nature Conservation Committee
KS - Radiocommunications Agency
KT - Office for Standards in Education
KV - Security Service
KW - Royal Parks Agency
KX - Historic Royal Palaces Agency
KY - National Council for Vocational Qualifications
LAB - Departments responsible for labour and employment matters
LAR - Land Registry
LB - Combined Tax Tribunal
LC - Lord Chamberlain and other officers of the Royal Household
LCO - Lord Chancellor's Office
LD - Office of Fair Trading
LE - The Court Service and Successors
LEO - Lyons Inquiry into Local Government
LF - Office of Telecommunications (Oftel)
LH - Women's National Commission
LJ - Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
LK - Police Complaints Authority and Police Complaints Board
LM - Department of Transport
LN - Building Societies Commission
LO - Law Officers' Department
LP - Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
LR - Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue
LRRO - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments
LS - Lord Steward, the Board of Green Cloth
LSIS - Learning and Skills Improvement Service
LT - Lands Tribunal
LV - Friendly Societies Commission
LX - Contributions Agency
LY - Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
MAF - Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments
MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency
MEPO - Metropolitan Police Office
MF - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments
MFC - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments formerly held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane
MFQ - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various departments held at the Public Record Office, Kew
MH - Ministry of Health
MHRA - Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
MINT - Royal Mint
MJ - Ministry of Justice
MM - Millennium Commission
MONW - Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire
MPA - Chancery: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPAA - Chancery: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPB - Exchequer: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPBB - Exchequer: maps and plans extracted to extra large 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
MPD - Treasury: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPDD - Treasury: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPE - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPEE - Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPF - State Paper Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPFF - State Paper Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPG - Colonial Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPGG - Colonial 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
MPI - Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of departments not assigned an individual map extract prefix
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
MPKK - Foreign Office: maps and plans extracted to extra large 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
MPNN - Court of King's Bench: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPO - Forestry Commission maps and plans
MPP - Cabinet Office flat maps
MPQ - Privy Council: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPQQ - Privy Council: maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage
MPR - RAIL flat maps
MPS - British Transport Historical Record Office: maps, plans and surveys
MPT - British Transport Commission: maps and plans extracted to flat storage
MPZ - Maps and plans extracted from records of various departments
MR - Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various departments
MRC - Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various departments formerly held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane
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
MUN - Ministry of Munitions and successors
NATS - Ministry of National Service
NB - Benefits Agency
NC - National Lottery Charities Board and the Community Fund
NDO - National Debt Office
NE - Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
NF - Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations
NG - National Gallery
NH - Countryside Council for Wales
NIA - National Insurance Audit Department
NICO - National Incomes Commission
NJ - Office of Manpower Economics
NK - Department of Trade and Industry (1983-2007)
NL - Independent Commission on the Voting System
NMM - National Maritime Museum
NOMS - National Offender Management Service
NP - Office of the President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals, Medical Appeal Tribunals and Vaccine Damage Tribunals and Independent Tribunal Service
NPL - National Physical Laboratory
NR - Central Rail Users Consultative Committee
NSC - National Savings Committee, the Post Office Savings Department and the Department for National Savings
NT - Inquiry into the Matters Arising from the Death of Stephen Lawrence
NV - Department for Education and Employment
NW - Interception of Communications Act Commissioner
NX - Security Service Act Commissioner
NY - Intelligence Services Act Commissioner
OBS - Obsolete lists and indexes
OCM - Ofcom (the Office of Communications)
OD - Department of Technical Co-operation, and successive Overseas Development bodies
OPG - Office of the Public Guardian
OS - Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
OSA - Office of the Schools Adjudicator
PALA - Records of the Palace Court
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
PEV - Court of the Honour of Peveril
PF - Department for Culture, Media and Sport
PH - Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
PHSO - Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
PIN - Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
PITA - Inquiry into Human Tissue Analysis in UK Nuclear Facilities (Redfern Inquiry)
PJ - Department of Trade, 1974-1983
PL - Palatinate of Lancaster
PMG - Paymaster General's Office and predecessors
PN - Inquiry into BSE
POST - Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
POWE - Ministry of Power
PP - Keeper of the Privy Purse
PREM - Prime Minister's Office
PRIS - King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons
PRO - Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
PROB - Prerogative Court of Canterbury
PSO - Keeper of the Privy Seal
PT - Public Trustee Office
PV - Department of Industry (1974-1983)
PWLB - Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Board
PX - Postal Services Commission
PY - Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM)
QAB - Queen Anne's Bounty
QAPS - Archive Production Services: material sent off-site for storage
QLIB - Resource Centre and Library stores material sent off-site for storage
QLX - List and Index Society store material sent off-site for storage
QPR - Pipe Roll Society stock sent off-site for storage
RAIL - Pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and related companies
RB - Adult Learning Inspectorate
RC - Learning and Skills Council
RD - Environment Agency
RECO - Ministry of Reconstruction
REQ - Court of Requests
RF - Insolvency Service
RG - General Register Office, Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
RGO - Royal Greenwich Observatory
RH - Department for Children, Schools and Families and Successor
RJ - Department created in anticipation of records to be transferred
RM - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
RP - Radio Authority
RS - Records originally intended for this code are now in JT
RT - Commission for Africa
RV - Report of the Committee of Privy Counsellors appointed to consider authorised procedures for the interrogation of persons suspected of terrorism (Parker Inquiry)
RW - The National Archives
SA - Commission for Judicial Appointments and Successors
SB - The Pensions Regulator
SC - Special Collections: records of various departments, arranged according to type
SCOT - Scottish Administration
SD - Zahid Mubarek Inquiry
SE - Chemical Regulations Directorate
SF - Statistics Commission
SH - Equal Opportunities Commission
SJ - Gas and Electricity Consumer Council (Energywatch)
SK - Consumer Council for Postal Services (PostWatch)
SL - Inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed
SLC - Student Loans Company Ltd
SO - Signet Office
SP - State Paper Office, including papers of the Secretaries of State up to 1782
SR - Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
ST - Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
STAC - Court of Star Chamber and of other courts
STAT - Stationery Office
SU - Department of Energy and Climate Change
SUPP - Ministry of Supply and successors and the Ordnance Board
SW - Natural England
T - HM Treasury
TCB - Post Office telegraph and telephone service
TCC - Post Office Corporation (Telecommunications Division)
TCD - British Telecommunications (public corporation)
TCK - Private collections of telecommunications related records held by BT Archives
TG - Tate Gallery
TITH - Tithe Commission and successors
TR - Tribunals Service
TS - Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General's Department
TV - Television Authority and the Independent Broadcasting Authority
UGC - Higher Education Funding Council for England
UKTI - UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)
VC - The Victoria Climbié Inquiry
VCA - Vehicle Certification Agency
VL - Central Veterinary Laboratory and Veterinary Laboratories Agency
VOSA - Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
WA - National Assembly for Wales
WALE - Legal Records Relating to Wales
WARD - Court of Wards and Liveries
WM - National Weights and Measures Laboratory
WO - War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
WORK - Office of Works and successors
ZBOX - Unfinished and unpublished texts, calendars and finding aids
ZHC - Publications of the House of Commons
ZHL - Publications of the House of Lords
ZJ - London Gazettes
ZLIB - British Transport Historical Records Office: publications
ZMAP - Maps and plans formerly held by the Public Record Office Library
ZOS - Publications of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
ZPER - British Transport Historical Records Office library: periodicals
ZSPC - British Transport Historical Records Office library: publications
ZWEB - Regularly Archived Government Websites

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