Catalogue description Department of Industry: Concorde and Nationalisation Compensation Division

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Title: Department of Industry: Concorde and Nationalisation Compensation Division
Description:

The Division continued with the administration aspects of Concorde operations, but also became focussed on the environmental aspects of the programme.

The Division was also responsible for the negotiation of compensation under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977. This act established British Aerospace and British Shipbuilders as corporate bodies and made provision for compensation to be paid to the companies which formed these two nationalised industries.

Files of the Compensation Steering Group are in PV 3.
Date: 1977-1981
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Concorde and Nationalisation Compensation Division, 1977-1981
Physical description: 1 series
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of Trade and Industry
Administrative / biographical background:

Concorde Division was established in 1971 to administer all aspects of the Concorde project. In 1977 its name was changed to the Concorde and Nationalisation Compensation Division to reflect a change of emphasis when the division became responsible for negotiations for compensation under the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977. The division was wound up in 1981.

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