Catalogue description Ministry of Fuel and Power and Successor: Statistics Branch and Successors: Registered Files (PLN Series)

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Reference: POWE 58
Title: Ministry of Fuel and Power and Successor: Statistics Branch and Successors: Registered Files (PLN Series)
Description:

Files on the planning of the development of the fuel and power industries, and the formulation of fuel policies. There are files on clean air policy and the possible extension of powers of the nationalised industries, as well as papers of the Energy Advisory Council.

The PLN series was established in the Budgets and Priorities Division, and passed to the Economic Adviser when his branch was formed in 1951. It moved again to the Economics and Statistics Division on the formation of the Ministry of Power in 1957. After 1967 the PLN series ceased and files relating to fuel policy/planning were raised in the GEN series.

This series contains RL files otherwise kept in POWE 55

Date: 1947-1970
Arrangement:

The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference number order within each accession.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PLN file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Fuel and Power, Statistics Branch, 1954-1956

Ministry of Power, Economics and Statistics Division, 1957-1961

Ministry of Power, Statistics and General Division, 1961-1962

Ministry of Power, Statistics Division, 1966-1969

Physical description: 89 file(s)
Restrictions on use: Subject to 30 year closure

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