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Series
Home Office: Statistical Department (SD Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 496
What's it about?
HO 496
The Statistical Department files relate to both policy and operational research and include a variety of subjects according to operational needs e.g. research on drugs and the misuse of drugs, minutes of the Criminal Statistics Committee, race...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 496
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Title (The name of the record)
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Home Office: Statistical Department (SD Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1973-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Statistical Department files relate to both policy and operational research and include a variety of subjects according to operational needs e.g. research on drugs and the misuse of drugs, minutes of the Criminal Statistics Committee, race relations and immigration statistics, prison population forecasts, investigations into overstaying by entrants to the UK and the revision of procedures relevant to prison offences and punishment.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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)
- SD Symbol 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Home Office, Statistical Department, 1974-1989
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 139 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2014 Home Office
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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
- Migration
- Race relations
- Prisons
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12726526/
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