Catalogue description Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department

Details of Division within DO
Reference: Division within DO
Title: Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department
Description:

Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department relating to emigration from Britain to the dominions. Correspondence of the department is in DO 57, with registers of correspondence in DO 5 and DO 6.
Date: 1926-1936
Related material:

See also Records of Emigration Departments in Division within CO

For the papers of W B Amery while British government representative in Australia for migration (1925-1928) and principal, Oversea Settlement Department (1929-1931) see DO 190
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Dominions Office, Overseas Settlement Department, 1925-1936
Physical description: 3 series
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1925 the Oversea Settlement Department and the Overseas Settlement Committee were transferred from the Colonial Office to the Dominions Office. An Inter-Departmental Committee on Migration Policy examined the whole question of emigration from the United Kingdom to the Commonwealth, and recommended (Cmd 4689 of 1934) a revised system. In 1936 the department ceased to exist as a separate entity and the committee was replaced by the Overseas Settlement Board, responsible for advising the secretary of state on matters of migration policy. The board became defunct during the Second World War but was revived in 1953.

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