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Records of the Statistics, Economics, General, Planning and Priorities Divisions...

Catalogue reference: Division within POWE

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Division within POWE

Records relating to the collection, analysis, preparation and publication of information and statistics relating to the mining industry.Registered files of the Statistics, General, and Planning Divisions and successors are in POWE 28, POWE 54,...

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Reference
Division within POWE
Title
Records of the Statistics, Economics, General, Planning and Priorities Divisions and predecessors
Date
1935-1985
Description

Records relating to the collection, analysis, preparation and publication of information and statistics relating to the mining industry.

Registered files of the Statistics, General, and Planning Divisions and successors are in POWE 28, POWE 54, POWE 56, POWE 58 and POWE 66. Files relating to the international aspects of the General Division's work are in POWE 68, with departmental guides in POWE 9. Registered files of the Budget and Priorities Division and successors are in POWE 57. Records of the Economics Division and succesors are in POWE 69 and POWE 70. Statistics prepared by the Statistics Branch for the Mines Department are in POWE 7

Separated material

Some files of the Fuel Efficiency Branch before 1948 are in

POWE 25

Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • Mines Department, Secretariat and General Division, 1920-1942
  • Ministry of Fuel and Power, Budget and Priorities Division, 1948-1953
  • Ministry of Fuel and Power, Economics and Statistics Division, 1946-1948
  • Ministry of Fuel and Power, Statistics and Planning Division, 1942-1945
  • Ministry of Fuel and Power, Statistics Branch, 1954-1956
  • Ministry of Power, Economics and Statistics Division, 1957-1961
  • Ministry of Power, Economics Division, 1967-1969
  • Ministry of Power, General Division, 1962-1969
  • Ministry of Power, Statistics and General Division, 1961-1962
  • Ministry of Power, Statistics Division, 1966-1969
Physical description
11 series
Subjects
Topics
Government finances
Mining and quarrying
Administrative / biographical background

Under the Mining Industry Act 1920, the Mines Department was made responsible for the "collection, preparation and publication of information and statistics relating to the mining industry". A Statistics Branch was created within the Secretariat and General Division to do this work. It also took over responsibilities from the Home Office, which included the collection of annual returns relating to output, employment, accidents and plant and machinery in the industry. Particulars of the weekly employment and coal production of mines, monthly statistics of output and quarterly surveys of the condition of coal mining were also compiled; these were published by the Board of Trade.

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