Catalogue description Department of Economic Affairs: Economic Planning Division and successors: Registered Files (EP, 1EP and 2EP Series)

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Details of EW 24
Reference: EW 24
Title: Department of Economic Affairs: Economic Planning Division and successors: Registered Files (EP, 1EP and 2EP Series)
Description:

Subjects dealt with in this series include the National Plan, heavy industries, housing, economic aspects of population growth and trends, British relations with the European Economic Community including negotiations for entry, the third London airport, defence, Rhodesia, the monetary devaluation of 1967, the National Economic Development Council and the Growth Project of the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Cambridge.

The series also includes several files with the prefix EQ originally opened by the Ministry of Technology.

Date: 1959-1970
Arrangement:

Original numerical sequence of creating body has been followed.

Files in the series are prefixed EP, 1EP and 2EP indiscriminately so that it is possible to have 3 parts of the same file with 3 different prefixes. The files are numbered both numerically and alphabetically. The numerical system being used until 1966 and the alphabetical from 1966 to 1969. Some of the files that were originally registered numerically were later re-registered alphabetically.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EP file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 245 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1990-2004 Department of the Environment

Custodial history: Transferred by the Department of Economic Affairs to the Ministry of Technology and then to the Department of Environment.
Accumulation dates: 1965-1970
Accruals: No further accruals expected

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