Catalogue description Department of Transport and successors: Tolls and Signs Division and successors: Registered Files (TS Series)

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Reference: LM 7
Title: Department of Transport and successors: Tolls and Signs Division and successors: Registered Files (TS Series)
Description:

These records relate to national infrastructure projects, including the M25 and the Dartford Crossing, and related policy development. The records, in the main, are Assistant Secretary Papers.

Date: 1985-1997
Arrangement:

These records are arranged in chronological and prefix order
Related material:

See also:

MT 125/578

MT 125/579
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: TS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001

Department of Transport, 1976-1997
Physical description: 35 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2016 Department for Transport
Custodial history: Deparment of Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1998-2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002; Department of Transport, 2002 to present
Accumulation dates: 1986 onwards
Selection and destruction information: These records are illustrative of policy formation or substantial involvement in nationally significant projects. As such, these records have been selected under criterias 3.1.1 and 3.1.3 of the Records Collection Policy.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Tolls and Signs Division was created in 1986, under the Highways Policy and Programme, drawing together elements of the then Traffic and Local Division and the tolls element of the Highways Division. The responsibilities of the new division were policy on tolled estuarial crossings, directional traffic signs, traffic signs regulations and co-ordination of work on the completion of the M25.

In 1988 responsibilities for traffic signs were transferred to Roads Engineering and the newly entitled Tolls and Dartford Crossing Division was given responsibility for the provision of a larger crossing at Dartford. By 1989 responsibilities were expanded to include the Second Severn Cross and privately funded highways.

The departmental responsibility for these records is defined as follows:

Department of Transport:

1986-1987: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Programme: Tolls and Signs Division.

1988: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Programme: Tolls and Dartford Crossing Division.

1989: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Programme: Tolled Crossings Division.

1990: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Porgramme: Tolled Roads.

1991: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Programme: Tolled Roads and Crossings.

1992-1994: Department of Transport: Highways, Policy and Resources: Tolled Roads and Crossings.

1995-1996: Department of Transport: National Roads Policy: Tolled Roads and Crossings.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions:

1997: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions: Roads and Local Transport Policy Directorate: National Roads Policy: Tolling and Private Finance Division.

1998: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions: Planning, Roads and Local Transport Group: National Roads Policy: Tolling and Private Finance Division.

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