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Series
Unemployment Grants Committee
Catalogue reference: LAB 4
What's it about?
LAB 4
Minutes of meetings and the final report of the Unemployment Grants Committee, together with a selection of papers illustrating the operation of various types of schemes, registers of schemes, committee files and reports, and general policy files.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LAB 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Unemployment Grants Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1920-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes of meetings and the final report of the Unemployment Grants Committee, together with a selection of papers illustrating the operation of various types of schemes, registers of schemes, committee files and reports, and general policy files.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 269 files and volumes
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Labour
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For further information, see B Swann and M Turnbull, Records of Interest to Social Scientists 1919-1939: Employment and Unemployment (PRO Handbooks No 18, 1978), 142-148, 529.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10119/
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