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HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Industrial Policy Group: records (ISSP prefix...

Catalogue reference: T 440

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T 440

This series contains records of the Industrial Policy Group of HM Treasury (ISSP prefix files). The following areas were the preserve of the Industrial Economics Division of the Industrial Policy Group. These records comprise discussions about:...

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Reference

T 440

Title
HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Industrial Policy Group: records (ISSP prefix files)
Date

1981-1983

Description

This series contains records of the Industrial Policy Group of HM Treasury (ISSP prefix files).

The following areas were the preserve of the Industrial Economics Division of the Industrial Policy Group. These records comprise discussions about: supply side measures to improve markets and generate enterprise; competition policies including mergers, monopolies, privatisation and restrictive trades practices; small firms; 'The Impact of Government on Industry' review of governmentally imposed burdens upon industry; industrial relations; inflation accounting; coordination of HM Treasury interest in company legislation; corporate taxation (industrial aspects); enterprise zones.

The following areas were the preserve of the Employment and Pay Division of the Industrial Policy Group. Pay and Prices (general aspects); monitoring of current policy pay and prices statistics; liaison with forecasters on future assumptions; advice on pay cases; liaison with expenditure divisions on implications of pay cases and on pay and prices assumptions on cash limits; coordination of HM Treasury interest in Civil Emergency arrangements; Bank Holidays. Planning and control of public expenditure relating to employment, including Department of Employment (excluding Incomes Policy and industrial relations); Manpower Services Commission; Advisory, Conciliatory and Arbitration Service and the European Economic Community social fund.

The ISSP prefix denotes 'Industrial Supply Side Policy'.

Arrangement

Records are in chronological and prefix order.

Related material

See also T 390

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

ISSP prefix files

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Treasury, Domestic Economy Sector, 1975-1975
Physical description

154 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2013 Treasury

Accumulation dates

1981 to 1985

Accruals

Series is accruing.

Selection and destruction information

3.1.1 - Management of government revenues and expenditure. 3.1.4 – Regulation and Support of Economic Activity by Government.

Administrative / biographical background

The Industrial Policy Group was created in 1981 under the Domestic Economy Sector of the HM Treasury. The Industrial Policy Group comprised two Divisions: Employment and Payment Division covering public sector pay and pensions expenditure on employment and training measures; Industrial Economics Division covering industrial policy and its relation to general economic policy.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12176401/

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HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Industrial Policy Group: records (ISSP prefix files)