Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Regional Planning and Organization, Registered Files (RPO Series)

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Reference: PIN 81
Title: Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Regional Planning and Organization, Registered Files (RPO Series)
Description:

This series consists of policy files from the Administration and Social Security Operations Group Regional Directorate (RD) of the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) relating to the control of social security regional and local offices.

The files were originally registered as files of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance Staff and Establishment Division (SE Series). Having become the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Security in 1966, they were subsequently re-registered as RPO Series files of DHSS in 1970, without any change in their allocated file numbers. The RPO Series was superseded in 1981 by the CSM Series.
Date: 1955-1981
Related material:

Files on local office accommodation are in BN 11

A sample of DHSS regional office (social security) files are in BN 17
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RPO file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, Establishments and Organisation Division, 1968-1971

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Establishments and Organisation Department, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, Establishments and Organisation Department, 1966-1968
Physical description: 10 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Regional Directorate was the division responsible for the control of all social security regional and local offices.

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