Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Defence Planning and Emergencies (DPE Series) Files

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Reference: MT 208
Title: Transport Ministries: Defence Planning and Emergencies (DPE Series) Files
Description:

This series contains Defence Planning and Emergencies (DPE Series) files concerning defence planning and emergencies aspects of transport policy, including privatisation of British Transport Docks Board, and papers of the Container Policy Committee.
Date: 1980-2001
Arrangement:

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

Department of the Environment, Defence Planning and Emergencies Division, 1970-1976

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Defence Planning and Emergencies Division, 1976-1988

Ministry of Transport, Ports, Shipping and Defence Directorate, 1966-1970
Physical description: 24 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2010 Department for Transport
Custodial history: 1966-1970 Ministry of Transport – Ports, Shipping and Defence; 1971-1976 Department of the Environment - Transport Industries – Ports, Shipping and Defence; 1977–1987 Department of the Environment and Transport – Common Services; 1988–1996 Department of Transport – Shipping Policy and Emergency Planning Directorate; 1997–2001 Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions; 2001–2002 Department of Transport Local Government and the Regions; 2002 to date Department for Transport.
Selection and destruction information: By routine review in department, following guidance in OSP 14 Home Defence and Emergency Planning 1972-2001
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Defence Planning Division was created in 1966 as part of the Ministry of Transport within Ports, Shipping and Defence Directorate. In 1970 it became part of the Department of the Environment, Transport Industries, and in 1976 part of the Departments of the Environment and Transport Common Services Organisation, until 1988 when it passed to the Department of Transport.

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