Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Consumer and Competition Policy Division: Registered Files (KZ Series)

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Reference: NK 73
Title: Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Consumer and Competition Policy Division: Registered Files (KZ Series)
Description:

This series consists of the registered files of the Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy Divisions and successors. The files are concerned with UK competition policy and casework on mergers and monopoly, and anti-competitive practices. It also includes files covering legislation and Mergers and Monopolies Commission (MMC) references.

Date: 1992-2001
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: KZ prefix series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Trade and Industry, Competition Policy and Utilities Review Team Directorate, 1998-1999

Department of Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy Directorate, 1997-1998

Department of Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs Division, 1983-1996

Physical description: 103 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2023 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Selection and destruction information: 3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments. OSP 43 on Competition Case files has also been used to guide selection.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy (CACP) Division was part of the Department of Trade and Industry. The Division was primarily concerned with competition policy and casework, UK mergers and monopolies, and anti-competitive practices. Other areas of work covered by the Division were legislation and Mergers and Monopolies Commission (MMC) references under section 11 of the Competition Act 1980.

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