Catalogue description Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Liquor Licensing: Registered Files (LIQ Series)

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Details of PF 317
Reference: PF 317
Title: Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Liquor Licensing: Registered Files (LIQ Series)
Description:

This series contains files regarding liquor licensing, following on from the transfer of policy responsibility in this area from the Home Office. These records largely concern the preparation of legislation and policy regarding the impact of alcohol on hooliganism and other anti-social behaviours.

Date: 1985-2002
Arrangement:

The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number, the sequence repeating for successive transfers. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in LIQ (1999) 5/3/12) indicates the year in which the file was created.

Related material:

Records of the predecessor function within the Home Office can be found in HO 295

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

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997

Home Office, 1782-

Physical description: 334 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Custodial history: Files dating before 2001 were originally created by and in custody of the Home Office. In 2001 the Liquor Licensing function and its records were transferred to the Department of National Heritage.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the Department of National Heritage, and later the Depatment for Culture, Media and Sport, the Liquor Licensing function was responsible for legislation, policy and strategy relating to the sale of alcohol.

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