Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Space, Post Office and Films Division and Telecommunications and Posts Division: Registered Files (NGB Series)

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Reference: NK 64
Title: Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Space, Post Office and Films Division and Telecommunications and Posts Division: Registered Files (NGB Series)
Description:

This series consists of the registered files of the Space, Post Office and Films Division and its successor the Telecommunications and Posts Division. The files provide an overview of the privatisation process relating to the National Girobank. They show the early options, concerns and issues that were considered, and the views expressed about the timing of the sale in 1990.
Date: 1983-1991
Former reference in its original department: NGB
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Trade and Industry, Space, the Post Office and Films Division, 1983-1986

Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications and Posts Division, 1986-1994
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Accumulation dates: Prefix used from 1983 to 1991. Last date of use is not known.
Selection and destruction information: Management of the Economy (2.2.1.2)
Accruals: No further accruals expected for this set of records
Administrative / biographical background:

The NGB prefix was used by the Space, Post Office and Films Division and also by its successor in 1986 the Telecommunications and Posts Division. These were the sponsorship Divisions within the DTI for the Post Office and the National Girobank and were responsible for coordinating the Department’s policy with regard to these nationalised industries.

The Space, Post Office and Films Division was also responsible for, as its name suggests, space technology, the film industry, the Post Office and National Girobank, and international postal policy. Following a departmental reorganisation in 1986, the branch responsible for sponsorship of the Post Office and National Girobank was merged with the existing Telecommunications Division to create a new Telecommunications and Posts Division.

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