Catalogue description Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency and predecessors: Registered Files

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Title: Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency and predecessors: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains selected files inherited or created by the Central Computer Agency (CCA) and the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA). Earlier files originated in the Civil Service Department (BA) or the Treasury, and some have been re-registered into the numbered series used by the CCA.

The files contain information relating to the setting up of CCA, including its aims and objectives; development of the use of computers in government departments; the introduction of a networked telephone system for Whitehall departments; discussions on privacy aspects of the holding of personal details on computer and details of CCTA's relationships and correspondence with interested organisations in both the private and public sectors.
Date: 1956-1988
Arrangement:

The files are made up of a single series, and are arranged in the order of the first numerical element of the reference (the alphabetical prefixes denoting a very broad topic).
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 85 file(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , from 1994
Accruals: Series is accruing

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