Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Establishment Division (Personnel) and successors: Registered Files (FM Series)

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Reference: FV 72
Title: Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Establishment Division (Personnel) and successors: Registered Files (FM Series)
Description:

Files mainly cover policy on the employment and retirement of scientific and technological staff in Regional Offices and Industrial Research Establishments. One file relates to staffing requirements at the Department of Trade's Accidents Investigation Branch. Other files discuss the need for written appointments of Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State and written authorisations to exercise powers under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
Date: 1968-1983
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FM file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Division (Personnel), 1970-1972

Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Personnel Division, 1972-1974

Departments of Industry, Trade and Prices and Consumer Protection Common Services, Establishment Personnel Division, 1974-1983
Physical description: 34 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Department of Trade and Industry
Selection and destruction information: Policy files are always selected for permanent preservation (schedule 6B)
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In July 1970 the Establishment Division of the Board of Trade was split into two new divisions, Establishment Division (Personnel), or E(P), and Establishment Division (Organisation). In October 1970 both divisions became part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) when the Board of Trade and divisions of the Ministry of Technology came together to form the DTI. On a reorganisation of the DTI's establishments work in June 1972 E(P) became Establishment Personnel Division (EP).

Following the splitting of the DTI in 1974 into three separate Departments (Industry, Trade, and Prices and Consumer Protection) EP became part of the common support services for these departments. It continued in this role following the merger of the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection with the Department of Trade in 1979. EP was renamed Personnel Management Division (PM) in February 1983.

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