Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Directorate General of Research; Registered Files (DGR and DGRP Series)

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Reference: AT 82
Title: Department of the Environment: Directorate General of Research; Registered Files (DGR and DGRP Series)
Description:

Files in this series relate to the conduct and organisations of the research stations and to the management of the programme of research within the Department.

It includes papers on the GENESYS Centre, a project to set up a library of computer programmes for use in construction engineering. GENESYS stood for General Engineering Systems.
Date: 1966-1985
Arrangement:

The files will be presented in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DGR and DGRP Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 212 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2002 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Custodial history: The files have remained within the custody of the Department of the Environment, and its successor bodies the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Accumulation dates: File series ran from 1971 to 1980.
Selection and destruction information: The files have been selected on the basis that they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's acquisition policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Directorate General of Research (DGR) was created by Departmental Notice 14/71. The existing research establishments the Road Research Laboratory (Ministry of Transport) and the Building Research Station (Ministry of Public Buildings and Works) were placed under the DGR as were four research establishments transferred in from the Ministry of Technology (The Water Pollution Research Station, the Hydraulics Research Station, the Forest Products Research Laboratory and the Fire Research Station). A Directorate of Research Requirements was created at the same time to superintend research work carried out within the Department. The Directorate was listed in the Departmental directory from 1971 to 1976 when research work appears to have been split amongst the divisions on a functional basis.

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