Catalogue description Treasury and Civil Service Department: Management Services Division (MS Series Files)

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Reference: T 330
Title: Treasury and Civil Service Department: Management Services Division (MS Series Files)
Description:

These files relate to the allocation of responsibilities to secretaries of state, ministers, and other political offices, to the organisation of departments to discharge those responsibilities, to the House of Commons Disqualification legislation, to the Parliamentary Commissioner legislation, and to the relations between Parliament and its committees and ministers and civil servants.

Date: 1959-1969
Arrangement:

By former reference order

Related material:

Later files on machinery of government issues are in BA 17

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

Treasury, Management Services Division, 1945-1968

Physical description: 187 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Cabinet Office

Custodial history: Transferred from Treasury to Civil Service Department in 1968; then to Management and Personnel Office in 1981; then to Cabinet Office in 1982.
Accumulation dates: 1963 to 1968
Selection and destruction information: Only files on significant machinery of government issues have been selected for permanent preservation
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

From 1942 the ministerial Machinery of Government Committee assisted by official committees dealt with machinery of government questions; at the end of 1945 the Ministerial Committee decided that the Treasury should accept the responsibility and a small MG section was set up; in 1947 it was incorporated in the Organisation and Methods Section. Under the re-organisation begun in 1956 and built on in 1962 the Organisation and Methods and Management Services divisions were brigaded within the Management Group: this series contains files on machinery of government issues from this latter period. In 1968 the machinery of government function passed to the new Civil Service Department.

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