Catalogue description Cabinet: Lord President's Committee and Subordinate Committees and Home Affairs Committee, Sub-committees: Minutes and Papers (LP and other Series)

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Details of CAB 132
Reference: CAB 132
Title: Cabinet: Lord President's Committee and Subordinate Committees and Home Affairs Committee, Sub-committees: Minutes and Papers (LP and other Series)
Description:

This series consists of the minutes and papers of the Lord President's Committee 1946-1951, and of its various sub-committees; those sub-committees which continued in existence under the Home Affairs Committee, after the Lord President's Committee was abolished in 1951 are included in this series.

The series covers a wide range of topics including civil science policy, pay of the higher civil service, industrial productivity, space research, agricultural research, and natural resources.
Date: 1945-1968
Arrangement:

Chronological within original subject classification; papers/memoranda predate minutes they refer to but are filed after them in list
Related material:

See also the records of the Offices of the Lord President of the Council, Minister of Reconstruction and Minister for Science

Division within CAB

Earlier records of the Lord President's Committee from 1940 are in CAB 71
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cabinet, Home Affairs Committee, 1919-1939
Physical description: 223 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1975 Cabinet Office
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Lord President of the Council's Committee was set up in 1940. It had a number of sub-committees covering various issues of domestic policy. It was abolished in October 1951 by the incoming Conservative government. Its work was transferred to the Home Affairs Committee, appointed in November 1951 and chaired by the Lord President. A number of sub-committees of the Lord President's Committee continued in existence under the Home Affairs Committee; they included the Natural Resources (Technical) Committee, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and Committee on Overseas Scientific Relations.

At the time of the change, the Lord President also became 'Co-ordinating Minister' for Food and Agriculture, and retained responsibility for Privy Council Research Committees.

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