Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Directorate-General of Economic Planning (EPR Series) Files

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Details of MT 149
Reference: MT 149
Title: Transport Ministries: Directorate-General of Economic Planning (EPR Series) Files
Description:

This series contains the files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning and its successors in the Ministry of Transport, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transport. The files are registered in the EPR series.

Subjects covered in the files include: investment appraisal; the structure and organisation of nationalised industries; transport economics research programmes; the transport costs and demand structure; urban transport economics; vehicle taxation; goods and passenger road transport; railway manpower, closures and subsidies; and transportation in London.

Some files from the HPG and GPH series (otherwise in MT 120) have been re-registered in this series

Date: 1965-1985
Related material:

Other files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning are in

There was no predecessor general economics file series to EPR, but papers on the economic aspects of highways can be found in the HEU series files of the Highway Economics Unit in MT 148

MT 166

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EPR Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 230 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1995 Department of Transport

Selection and destruction information: Files selected for this series reflect the wide range of concerns indicated above and cover investment appraisal; the structure and organisation of nationalised industries; transport economics research programmes; transport costs and demand structure; urban transport economics; vehicle taxation; road transport, both goods and passenger; railway manpower, closures and subsidies; and transportation in London. They also include examples of the Directorate-General's contribution to Government white papers on such topics as nationalised industries, transport policy and the National Freight Plan.
Accruals: Series is accruing

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