Catalogue description The Insolvency Service and predecessors; Registered Files (B Series)

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Reference: RF 1
Title: The Insolvency Service and predecessors; Registered Files (B Series)
Description:

A series of files used by all sections and units in the Headquarters of the Insolvency Service. These included banking, disqualification, finance, human resources, inspectorate, insolvency practitioners, official receivers, policy, prosecution, secretariat and technical.

Subjects covered are discussions about the move to agency status, relocation, fees review and insolvency legislation.

Date: 1971-1990
Arrangement:

In numerical order of file reference.

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

Department of Trade and Industry, Industrial and Commercial Policy Division 1, 1970-1974

Department of Trade and Industry, Insolvency Service, 1983-1990

Department of Trade, Insolvency Service, 1974-1983

The Insolvency Service, 1990-

Physical description: 17 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2004 The Insolvency Service

Custodial history: It appears that this series was initially created by the Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessors and continued to be used by the Insolvency Service when it became an agency in 1990.
Selection and destruction information: Files selected using the following themes 2.2.1.2 - Management of the economy, 2.2.1.4 - administration of justice and 2.2.1 - policy and administrative processes of the state
Accruals: Series is accruing

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