Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry: Quality Design and Education Division and successors: Registered Files (NC Series)

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Reference: NK 61
Title: Department of Trade and Industry: Quality Design and Education Division and successors: Registered Files (NC Series)
Description:

This series consists of the registered files of the Quality Design and Education Division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). These files relate to the DTI's involvement with the Design Council and Design Museum in three main areas: documents relating to the Design Council's petition for a Royal Charter; financial problems faced by the Design Museum; and DTI campaigns to improve the incidence of good design in British Industry.

Date: 1970-1995
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NC
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Trade, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974

Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007

Department of Trade and Industry, Enterprise Initiative Division, 1988-1994

Department of Trade and Industry, Quality and Education Division, 1983-1986

Department of Trade and Industry, Quality Design and Education Division, 1987-1989

Physical description: 17 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2022 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Selection and destruction information: Management of the economy (2.2.1.2)
Accruals: No further accruals are anticipated
Administrative / biographical background:

The NC prefix series was used by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Quality Design and Education Division. This series related to the campaign to improve the incidence of good design in British Industry in particular its involvement with the Design Council and Design Museum.

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