Catalogue description Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Employment and Productivity: Growth, Incomes and Prices Policy Division and successors: Registered Files, Economic Co ordination (EC Series)

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Reference: EW 8
Title: Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Employment and Productivity: Growth, Incomes and Prices Policy Division and successors: Registered Files, Economic Co ordination (EC Series)
Description:

This series contains selected files dealing with prices and incomes policy, including subjects such as the Joint Statement of Intent on Productivity, Prices and Incomes; the prices and incomes freeze of 1966; and price increases and wage rises.

The series includes minutes of meetings (e.g. the Medium Term Assessment Committee; the Official Committee on Incomes and Prices; etc), correspondence, policy papers, etc, relating to prices and incomes policy and to productivity. These include the views and activities of interested organisations, including the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and the referral of proposed price increases to the National Board for Prices and Incomes (NBPI).
Date: 1961-1971
Arrangement:

The original numerical sequence of the creating body has been followed.

The files are arranged in the series as follows:

  • 1964 files: pieces 1-3 and 78-107;
  • 1965 files: pieces 4-10 and 108-458;
  • 1966 files: pieces 11-31;
  • 1967 files: pieces 32-62;
  • 1968 files: pieces 63-77.
Related material:

See also Records of departments responsible for labour and employment matters and related bodies, Division within LAB
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Economic Affairs, Growth, Prices and Incomes Policy Division, 1964-1967

Department of Economic Affairs, Industrial, Prices and Incomes Department, 1967-1968

Department of Employment and Productivity, Prices and General Policy Division, 1968-1970
Physical description: 994 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1988 Department of the Environment
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

When, in 1965, the Economic Co-ordination Division was split into home and overseas responsibilities, the Growth, Prices and Incomes Policy Division came under the umbrella of Economic Co-ordination (Home).

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