Catalogue description Department of Employment: Research and Planning Division: Registered Files (RP Series)

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Reference: LAB 110
Title: Department of Employment: Research and Planning Division: Registered Files (RP Series)
Description:

This series comprises registered files of the Research and Planning Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity and the Department of Employment, relating to the provision of advice on a very diverse range of subjects. These include industrial relations, the effects of long-term unemployment, regional patterns of employment and sex discrimination.

Date: 1967-2002
Arrangement:

Numerical by former file reference.

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

Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Employment and Productivity, Research and Planning Division, 1968-1970

Department of Employment, Research and Planning Division, 1970-1980

Employment Department Group, 1988-1995

Physical description: 445 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department for Education and Employment

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Research and Planning Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity was responsible for providing professional and economic advice on current policy, and co-ordinated departmental contributions to economic forecasts. It also supervised the department's research programme, and in the early 1970s acquired responsibility for the development of psychological tests and assessment techniques.

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