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Series
Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Private Office, Petitions...
Catalogue reference: PIN 87
What's it about?
PIN 87
This series consists of a representative selection of petition case files controlled and processed by the Private Office staff of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors.The files relate to questions raised with members of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PIN 87
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Private Office, Petitions Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a representative selection of petition case files controlled and processed by the Private Office staff of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors.
The files relate to questions raised with members of the royal family or the minister by voluntary and statutory authorities, benefit claimants and MPs on behalf of their constituents. They cover many topics, including the rates of benefit and pensions payable, the administration and policy development of various social security benefits and individuals' benefit entitlements.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Private office papers of senior officers of the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health and Social Security are in BN 13
Registered papers of the Private Office of the Department of Health and Social Security are in BN 72
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 103 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Department of Social Security
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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
- Pay and pensions
- Royalty
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to the Department of Social Security in 1988
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11600/
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