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Transport Ministries: Directorate-General of Economic Planning (EPR Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 149
What's it about?
MT 149
This series contains the files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning and its successors in the Ministry of Transport, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transport. The files are registered in the EPR series....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 149
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Directorate-General of Economic Planning (EPR Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning and its successors in the Ministry of Transport, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transport. The files are registered in the EPR series.
Subjects covered in the files include: investment appraisal; the structure and organisation of nationalised industries; transport economics research programmes; the transport costs and demand structure; urban transport economics; vehicle taxation; goods and passenger road transport; railway manpower, closures and subsidies; and transportation in London.
Some files from the HPG and GPH series (otherwise in MT 120) have been re-registered in this series
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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There was no predecessor general economics file series to EPR, but papers on the economic aspects of highways can be found in the HEU series files of the Highway Economics Unit in MT 148 MT 166
Other files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- EPR Series
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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)
- 230 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1995 Department of Transport
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files selected for this series reflect the wide range of concerns indicated above and cover investment appraisal; the structure and organisation of nationalised industries; transport economics research programmes; transport costs and demand structure; urban transport economics; vehicle taxation; road transport, both goods and passenger; railway manpower, closures and subsidies; and transportation in London. They also include examples of the Directorate-General's contribution to Government white papers on such topics as nationalised industries, transport policy and the National Freight Plan.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11198/
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