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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
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Series
Vehicle Inspectorate: Business Plans
Catalogue reference: MT 170
What's it about?
MT 170
This series contains the annual business plans of the Vehicle Inspectorate, an executive agency of the Department of Transport.
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 170
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Title (The name of the record)
- Vehicle Inspectorate: Business Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1995-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the annual business plans of the Vehicle Inspectorate, an executive agency of the Department of Transport.
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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)
- 3 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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)
- No further accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Annual business plans were produced by the Chief Executive's Office of the Vehicle Inspectorate Agency for the years 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to1995 they were produced by the Central Services Division, and from 1995 by the Corporate Affairs Division of the agency.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11219/
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