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Catalogue description Ministry of Defence: Permanent Under Secretary of State for Defence: Registered Files (D/PUS and PUS Series)
| Reference: | DEFE 23 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Defence: Permanent Under Secretary of State for Defence: Registered Files (D/PUS and PUS Series) |
| Description: |
Registered files in the D/PUS series concerning the wide range of subjects dealt with by the professional head of civilian staff in the Ministry of Defence. They include a number of files on the Committee on the Civil Service 1966-1968 (the Fulton Committee) of which Sir James Dunnett was a member. |
| Date: | 1956-2002 |
| Related material: |
Papers of the Committee on Civil Service are in BA 1 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | D/PUS and PUS file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Defence, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Defence, 1964- |
| Physical description: | 390 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1995 Ministry of Defence |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Under the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964, the Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry were absorbed into an enlarged Ministry of Defence under a Secretary of State for Defence from 1 April 1964. As a result, the post of Permanent Under Secretary of State (PUS) for Defence was created. The PUS was the professional head of civilian staff in the Ministry of Defence and also a member of the Defence Council. The first PUS was Sir Henry Hardman, who had previously served as Permanent Secretary to the Minister of Defence and was succeeded as follows:-
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