Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Cities Policy and Co-ordination Division; Registered files (CPCD series)

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Reference: AT 149
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Cities Policy and Co-ordination Division; Registered files (CPCD series)
Description:

Files in this series deal with policy on the creation of the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) and the monitoring of the early stages of its implementation.
Date: 1993-1996
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CPCD series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Cities Policy and Co-ordination Division, 1994-1997
Physical description: 6 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Department of the Environment 1995-1997, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006, Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-2018; and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 2018
Selection and destruction information: Significant policy files or files highly illustrative of the issues involved in the introduction of the Single Regeneration Budget have been recommended for retention
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) was announced on 4 November 1993. Under its provisions 20 government programmes were brought together. The Secretary of State for the Environment was responsible for the SRB with oversight being exercised by the Ministerial Committee on Regeneration (EDR).

The SRB formally commenced in April 1994. Its objective was to support social and physical regeneration and economic development and to improve the industrial competitiveness of firms. It was to do this primarily by filling the gaps in the main programmes where they were not sufficiently flexible to tackle the particular regeneration needs of an area.

The Cities Policy and Co-ordination Division (CPCD) was set up shortly after this and the CPCD prefix appeared in 1995. The role of the CPCD was policy and programme management on the SRB (including City pride) and liaison with the sponsoring Ministers, transfer arrangements for incoming programmes to the SRB and management of continuing programmes. The Division was also responsible for policy on the financial regime, monitoring and evaluation of the SRB.

On the creation of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) in 1997 the Division was merged into the new Regeneration Division. Files ceased to be raised in the CPCD prefix in 1998.

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