Catalogue description Records of the Establishment Departments

Details of Division within BT
Reference: Division within BT
Title: Records of the Establishment Departments
Description:

Records of the Establishment Departments of the Board of Trade and successors relating to staffing, pay, departmental reorganisation, common services and other internal matters.

The department's correspondence and papers are mainly in BT 13, BT 14, BT 20, BT 21, BT 295 and BT 296. Divisional organisation charts are in BT 310. Staff inspection reports are in BT 307. Minutes of the Board of Trade Journal Committee are in BT 302. Files relating to the staffing, pay, conditions of service and accommodation of the mercantile marine services are in BT 235. Translators' ledgers are in BT 301
Date: 1865-1987
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Establishment Department, 1865-1946

Board of Trade, Establishment Division, 1946-1970

Department of Industry, Establishment and Finance Division, 1976-1983

Department of Industry, Establishment Division, 1974-1976

Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment and Finance Division, 1983-1991

Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Division, 1970-1974
Physical description: 11 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Establishment Department (from 1946 division) was set up in 1865 to deal with staffing and pay, the reorganisation of the board's other departments and all other establishment matters. It was also responsible for common services provided for other government departments. The board's library and the staff producing the Board of Trade Journal (until their transfer to the Information Division) were attached to the Establishment Department. The official translator to the Board of Trade was responsible to the librarian.

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