Catalogue description Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series)

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Details of T 213
Reference: T 213
Title: Treasury: Defence Personnel Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division: Registered Files (DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP Series)
Description:

Files of the Defence Personnel (DP) Division and Defence and Overseas Personnel Division relating to personnel matters for the Armed Forces and certain Civil Service departments, ministries and offices.

The series also includes files of the earlier E file series (T 162), which were re-registered in the DP series in 1948.
Date: 1867-1970
Arrangement:

Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DP, 2-DP and 2-DOP file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Defence and Overseas Personnel Division, 1962-1968

Treasury, Defence Personnel Division, 1938-1962
Physical description: 1114 file(s)
Restrictions on use: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1976 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1948
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Defence Personnel (DP) Division was set up in April 1938. It dealt with:

  • pay, pensions, conditions of service and complementing for the armed forces and the defence and associated departments: Admiralty, Air Ministry, War Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Supply, Atomic Energy Authority, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Royal Observatories, Government Chemist, and Office of the Minister of Science;
  • all questions on manning, structure, recruitment and conditions of service for the Armed Forces in consultation with the appropriate Establishment Division;
  • allowances and conditions of service of locally engaged staff and United Kingdom based civilian staff abroad for all government departments, except Foreign Office and Commonwealth Relations Office, and excluding military attaches, specialist service attaches, and trade commissioners, which were dealt with by the Imperial (or Commonwealth) and Foreign Division.

When the Treasury was reorganised in 1962, the DP Division became the Defence and Overseas Personnel (DOP) Division, taking over conditions of service and allowances for all locally engaged staff and civil servants working overseas from Commonwealth and Foreign Division, including some Foreign Office questions.

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