Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Public Relations, Registered Files, (PR Series)

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Reference: PIN 69
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Public Relations, Registered Files, (PR Series)
Description:

Files concerning public relations and information policy, and files on particular public relations activities.

The series comprises former Ministry of Pensions files which were incorporated with post 1945 papers originating in the Ministry of National Insurance and papers and photographs relating to the National Insurance Jubilee (50 years of national insurance) of 1962.

The PR series of files was originally created within the Ministry of National Insurance and, after the merger with the Ministry of Pensions in 1953, some public relations files of the Ministry of Pensions were re-registered in it.
Date: 1917-1969
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PR file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
Physical description: 18 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Ministry of Pensions appointed a public relations officer during the Second World War. After the Ministry of National Insurance had been set up in 1945 it too appointed staff within its Establishments and Organisation Department to be responsible for public relations and information policy.

When the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of National Insurance were merged in 1953 to form the new Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (MPNI) these arrangements continued, and by 1966, the MPNI had created a separate Information Division, responsible for all aspects of public relations. The MPNI itself became part of the new Ministry of Social Security in 1966.

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