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Catalogue reference: AT 133

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AT 133

Files selected for preservation relate to sponsorship matters of Joint Nature Conservation Committee and English Nature and in particular to their financial and policy review and also the review of the Wildlife Enhancement Scheme which was...

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Reference
AT 133
Title

Department of the Environment and successors: Rural Affairs Directorate and Predecessors; Sponsorship of English Nature and Joint Nature Conservation Committee files (SPB Series)

Date
1990-2001
Description

Files selected for preservation relate to sponsorship matters of Joint Nature Conservation Committee and English Nature and in particular to their financial and policy review and also the review of the Wildlife Enhancement Scheme which was administered by English Nature.

Related material

FT Class for records of English Nature and KR Class for records of the JNCC. AT 85 has been opened for records relating to Dof E Rural Affairs Directorate

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
SPB
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-2001
  • Department of the Environment, Rural Affairs Directorate, 1979-1994
  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Wildlife Countryside Directorate, 1997-2001
  • Department of the Environment, Wildlife and Countryside Directorate, 1994-1997
Physical description
19 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

in 2015 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Custodial history
Until 1997 these files remained with the Department of the Environment; from 1997 to 2001, they were with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR); and from 2001 to the present they were with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Accumulation dates
1983 to 2003
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Selection and destruction information
These files were selected on the basis they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries.
Administrative / biographical background

In November 1973, following establishment of the Nature Conservancy Council, responsibility for nature conservancy transferred from the Department of Education and Science to the Department of the Environment. In 1990 the Environmental Protection Act established a Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) to advise the Secretary of State for the Environment on UK and international nature conservancy issues. This appears to have been led by the Rural Affairs Directorate. In 1995 this Directorate became the Wildlife and Countryside Directorate with the Wildlife Sponsorship Branch having responsibility for sponsorship matters relating to the JNCC and English Nature.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13337599/

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Department of the Environment and successors: Rural Affairs Directorate and Predecessors; Sponsorship of English Nature and Joint Nature Conservation Committee files (SPB Series)