Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Strategic Planning Directorate and successors, Registered files (SPD, PPU and CPPU file series)

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Reference: AT 72
Title: Department of the Environment: Strategic Planning Directorate and successors, Registered files (SPD, PPU and CPPU file series)
Description:

These records are the registered files of the Department of the Environment's Strategic Planning Directorate and successors.
Date: 1955-1996
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in original departmental file reference order within each transfer.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SPD, PPU and CPPU file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Directorate of Administrative Resources, 1990-1995

Department of the Environment, Resource Allocation and Central Economic Services, 1972-1977

Department of the Environment, Strategic Planning Directorate, 1970-1972

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Directorate of Administrative Resources, 1984-1990

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Economics and Statistics, 1977-1984
Physical description: 566 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2002 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred from the Department of the Environment to the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Common Services in 1977 and then to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Accumulation dates: Series ran 1970 to 1991
Selection and destruction information: The Department of the Environment Operational Selection Policy, section 4.10, identified this series as an important source of information on the coordination of policy in the newly created department. Collections of non-primary material and inconclusive collections of correspondence have not been preserved.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Unpublished finding aids:

Docket books and departmental electronic catalogue

Administrative / biographical background:

The Strategic Planning Directorate was established in 1970 to meet the requirements of the Fulton report and the White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government.

The directorate was tasked with four main roles:

  • Establishing a departmental programme structure;
  • Coordinating and participating in programme analysis research;
  • Setting existing programmes and policies in a longer term context by developing an agreed set of objectives for each area of departmental activity; and
  • Promoting special analytical studies.

In 1972 the directorate had become part of the Department of the Environment, Resource Allocation and Central Economic Services. By 1977 these roles were being undertaken by the Central Policy Planning Unit within the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Common Services, Economics and Statistics [Branch].

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