Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Economics, Housing Division: Registered Files (ECH series)

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Reference: AT 95
Title: Department of the Environment: Economics, Housing Division: Registered Files (ECH series)
Description:

The ECH file series contains files relating to housing investment programmes; economic models of the UK housing market; equity mortgage proposals and housing demand and needs forecasts.
Date: 1970-1986
Arrangement:

Within each transfer the records are arranged in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ECH
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Housing Directorate A, 1970-1987
Physical description: 8 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Custodial history: Since the file series ceased to accrue the records have been in the custody of the Department of the Environment (1992-1997), the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2002 to date).
Accumulation dates: 1972-1992
Selection and destruction information: The records were selected on the basis that they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
Accruals: The series will accrue.
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1972 the Economics, Housing Division was set up in the Department of the Environment, inheriting economic and statistics functions formally carried out by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. In 1977 it began the ECH file series which it continued to use until 1987.

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