Catalogue description Records of the Competition Policy, Tourism and Other Service Industries Division

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Reference: Division within PJ
Title: Records of the Competition Policy, Tourism and Other Service Industries Division
Description:

The Division was responsible for providing advice and policy on competition including the impact of competition policy on the nationalised industries, a review of competition policy, prices, restrictive practices and monopolies and mergers. It was also concerned with the newspaper, printing and publishing industries, commercial agencies, distributive and personal service trades and tourism including the hotel and film industries.

Registered files of the Competition Policy, Tourism and Other Service Industries Division and successors relating to the Competition Act 1980 and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (CP series), are in PJ 4 and files relating to tourism and films are in PJ 9.
Date: 1979-1988
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 2 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of Trade and Industry

Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Administrative / biographical background:

The Competition Policy, Tourism and Other Service Industries Division was formed in 1980 through the merger of the Competition Policy and the Publishing, Tourism, Films and Distribution Divisions. Competition Policy Division had been established in July 1979 to oversee the review of competition policy and the subsequent legislation.

There were three branches in the Division:- Branch 1 which dealt with monopolies and mergers and the review of competition policy; Branch 2 which dealt with the nationalised industries, newspapers and publishing, prices and restrictive practices; and Branch 3 which dealt with tourism, the hotel and film industry and the distributive and personal service trades.

In 1983 the Division lost responsibility for tourism which moved to the International Aviation and Tourism Division and was renamed the Competition Policy and Service Industries Division. With the creation of the Department of Trade and Industry in 1983 the Division also became concerned with consumer safety in the home and in the purchase of goods and consumer credit and hire, estate agencies and EC competition rules. It was again renamed as the Competition Policy, Consumer Credit and Safety Division. In 1983 the Division was abolished and its work on consumer credit and consumer safety absorbed by the Consumer Affairs Division.

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