Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Water and Sewerage, Registered Files (WS Series)

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Details of HLG 127
Reference: HLG 127
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Water and Sewerage, Registered Files (WS Series)
Description:

These files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relate mainly to the exercise by those departments of their responsibilities under the Water Acts 1945 to 1948 and the Water Resources Act 1963. The series contains general policy files and case files dealing with specific water and river authorities. The subjects covered include: the organisation of water resources, water supplies and charges, water pollution, underground water, fluoridation and drought. The series includes minutes and papers of the Central Advisory Water Committee.

Date: 1893-1998
Related material:

See also JH 7

See also AT 19

Separated material:

Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see AT 31

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1661 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1982 Department of the Environment

Accruals: Series is accruing

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