Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Regional Development (RDD Series) Files

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Details of MT 155
Reference: MT 155
Title: Transport Ministries: Regional Development (RDD Series) Files
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Regional Development Division. They cover important policy aspects of regional development and demonstrate the Division's co-ordinating role in the regional transport area. Includes files on Morecambe Bay Barrage Scheme.
Date: 1957-1970
Arrangement:

Alphanumerically by former reference.
Separated material:

Some files from the RDD series were re-registered into the GD series: MT 96
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RDD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport, Regional Development Division, 1964-1970
Physical description: 18 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

1998-2005 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: After 1970 custody of the records has been the preserve of unknown bodies within the Department of Transport, from 1970 to 1997 and the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions from 1997.
Accumulation dates: 1964-1970
Selection and destruction information: The selection contains most of the files that have survived, with the exception of those containing only copies of papers originating from outside the division which have been destroyed.
Accruals: No further accruals expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Regional Development Division (RDD) was established in 1964 as part of the Inter-Urban Policy, Regional Development and International Group, and in 1968 took over the economic development functions of the Transport Policy General Division. The RDD was responsible for co-ordinating action on the transport aspects of the work of the Government's regional development machinery, and was also concerned with the co-ordination of work with industry, and for the Scottish and Welsh White Papers.

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