Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors; Research and Development Requirements Division and successors: Registered Files (RD Series)

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Reference: FV 92
Title: Department of Trade and Industry and successors; Research and Development Requirements Division and successors: Registered Files (RD Series)
Description:

The series contains registered files (RD series) of the Research and Development Requirements Division and successors, including agendas, papers and minutes of the Requirements Boards.
Date: 1967-1989
Arrangement:

The files are arranged in file number order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RD series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Research and Development Requirements Division, 1974-1977

Department of Industry, Research and Technology Policy Division, 1982-1983

Department of Industry, Research and Technology Requirements and Perspective Division, 1977-1982

Department of Trade and Industry, Research and Development Requirements Division, 1972-1974

Department of Trade and Industry, Research and Technology Policy Division, 1983-1992
Physical description: 220 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2006 Department of Trade and Industry
Selection and destruction information: Selected in accordance with Paragraph 8.4.1 of the OSP on Industrial Policy - Minutes and papers of each Requirement Board will be selected
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the publication of the Review of the Framework for Government Research and Development (Cmnd 5046) the Department of Industry established a number of Research Requirements Boards to determine priorities within the overall government Research and Development programme. The Boards were given the responsibility for managing work within the government's Industrial Research Establishments such as the National Physical Laboratory and the Warren Spring Laboratory.

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