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Catalogue description Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files
| Reference: | BT 223 |
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| Title: | Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files |
| Description: |
This series contains Home Office six figure series files relating to matters of consumer safety which until 1974 was a Home Office responsibility. From 1974-1980 responsibility rested with the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection and from 1980 with the Department of Trade. |
| Date: | 1929-1990 |
| Related material: |
Other files relating to fireworks are in HO 95 Files of the Home Office and Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, Fair Trading Division, are in HO 371 Files in the HSY Symbol Series, which was used by the Home Office (for files on home safety) and later the DPCP are in HO 381 For files in the CSU series used by the Consumer Safety Unit of the Fair Trading Division of the DPCP, see JF 1 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Home Office, 1782- |
| Physical description: | 60 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1970 Department of Industry |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
From before the Second World War until 1974 responsibility for consumer safety rested with the Home Office. On the establishment of the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (DPCP) in 1974 consumer safety became one of its responsibilities, and a Consumer Safety Unit was established in 1977. On the dissolution of the DPCP in 1980, responsibility was transferred to the Department of Trade. |
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