Catalogue description Cabinet Office: Security Procedures and Practices in the Public Service Records

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Details of CAB 318
Reference: CAB 318
Title: Cabinet Office: Security Procedures and Practices in the Public Service Records
Description:

This series covers security procedures and practices in the Public Service Records and sometimes includes personal security vetting appeals.

Date: 1980-1997
Related material:

See also BA 19

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

Cabinet Office, Management and Personnel Office, 1982-1988

Physical description: 134 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Cabinet Office , from 2014

Custodial history: Transferred from the Treasury to the Civil Service Department in 1968, then to the Management and Personnel Office in 1981 and then to the Cabinet Office in 1982.
Accumulation dates: From 1982
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Management (Personnel) Group transferred to the Civil Service Department on its creation in 1968, with responsibility for duties relating to personnel and all other aspects of assisting central and departmental management to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Civil Service in the planning of programmes and the use of resources, including Civil Service manpower strategy and control. O and M surveys, statistics, training, provision of medical advisory services and welfare.

The Civil Service Department was dissolved in 1981 and the function transferred to the new Management and Personnel Office in 1981, which became part of the Cabinet Office in 1982.

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