Catalogue description Records of the Integration of Commonwealth Immigrants Department

Details of Division within EW
Reference: Division within EW
Title: Records of the Integration of Commonwealth Immigrants Department
Date: 1965
Related material:

Although the Public Record Office holds no records of this department, minutes and papers of the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants are in:

CK 3

HO 230

HO 231
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Economic Affairs, Integration of Commonwealth Immigrants Department, 1965-1965
Administrative / biographical background:

Created in March 1965 by the Prime Minister, this was a short-lived and very small department of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) which was responsible for implementing government policy on immigration. Its proposal regarding the setting up of a National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (NCCI) which was published in August 1965 in the White Paper Immigration from the Commonwealth (Cmnd 2739), was implemented in September.

Its responsibilites were taken over by the Home Office department of Immigration and Nationality in December 1965.

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