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Series
Home Office: Data Processing (DP Symbol) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 524
What's it about?
HO 524
This series consists of policy files on Home Office information technology systems and includes records of local committees, steering groups and review groups.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 524
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Data Processing (DP Symbol) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of policy files on Home Office information technology systems and includes records of local committees, steering groups and review groups.
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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)
- DP Symbol
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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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 20 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
- Computing
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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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Home Office reassessed its long term information management, accommodation needs and financial provisions for modernisation. In this process it set up committee and sub-committee groups to discuss strategies, policies, reports on feasibility studies, financial and risk appraisals of all options and recommendations. Main themes carried out in this series include; property management, telecommunications, service level agreements, personal information and manpower management systems, live systems support.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13431864/
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