Catalogue description Central Policy Review Staff

Details of Division within CAB
Reference: Division within CAB
Title: Central Policy Review Staff
Description:

Records of the Central Policy Review Staff relating to responsibilities for advising ministers on policy issues of a strategic or interdepartmental nature.

Files on issues referred to the staff during the Heath administration are in CAB 184.
Date: 1970-1976
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Central Policy Review Staff was established by prime minister Edward Heath shortly after forming his new administration in 1970. Heath selected Lord Rothschild as the Chairman of the Review Staff, and Rothschild was given a fairly free hand in setting the staff up.

The Central Policy Review Staff advised ministers collectively on major issues of policy of an interdepartmental or strategic nature.

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