Catalogue description Department of Social Security: Registered Files of Registry 25, Permanent Secretary's Office

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Reference: JB 60
Title: Department of Social Security: Registered Files of Registry 25, Permanent Secretary's Office
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Permanent Secretary's Office.

At this time the Permanent Secretaries did not keep registered files, and there is no record of any papers belonging to Sir Michael Partridge (1988 to 1995) or Rachel Lomax (1999 to 2002). Dame Ann Bowtell, Permanent Secretary 1995 to 1999, did submit some of her personal papers for preservation and these can be found JB 3. Similarly Ministers in this period did not keep registered files. Some Ministerial papers for the period 1994 to 1997 were recovered after the 1997 General Election.

The material on the registered files is high level policy and strategy put to the Permanent Secretary. They also contain Board papers, whose records are not preserved elsewhere.

Registry 25 prefixes:

  • AGY = Agency.
  • BFT = Benefits.
  • BGY = Benefits Agency.
  • BOW = Dame Ann Bowtell.
  • CHA = Citizens Charter.
  • DBD = Departmental Board.
  • DBN = Disability Benefits.
  • FRD = Fraud.
  • GOV = Local government.
  • MBD = HQ Management Board.
  • NAO = National Audit Office.
  • NCI = Helping small business.
  • PAC = Public Accounts Committee.
  • PCA = Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.
  • RCD = Royal College Defense studies.
  • SSC = Social Security Select Committee.
  • SUN = Permanent Secretaries meetings.
  • SWD = Strategy Weekend.
  • SYS = Social Security Seminar.
  • TRI = Independent Tribunal Service.
  • VIS = visits.

Date: 1987-1999
Arrangement:

The series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).
Related material:

See also:

BN 13

JB 3
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
Physical description: 93 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2017 Department for Work and Pensions
Custodial history: Department of Social Security 1988–2001; then Department for Work and Pensions 2001-
Accumulation dates: 1988 to 2001
Selection and destruction information: Selection and destruction as per OSP5
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Department of Health and Social Security split in 1988. The Departmental Records Office of Health and Social Security did not split until 1995. Registry 25 was created in 1995, although some material dates from 1988. The registry was closed in 2001 when the department merged with Department of Employment and became Department for Work and Pensions.

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