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Cabinet Office: Security Procedures and Practices in the Public Service Records

Catalogue reference: CAB 318

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CAB 318

This series covers security procedures and practices in the Public Service Records and sometimes includes personal security vetting appeals.

Full description and record details

Reference
CAB 318
Title
Cabinet Office: Security Procedures and Practices in the Public Service Records
Date
1980-1997
Description

This series covers security procedures and practices in the Public Service Records and sometimes includes personal security vetting appeals.

Related material

See also BA 19

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
SCY
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Cabinet Office, Management and Personnel Office, 1982-1988
Physical description
134 file(s)
Access conditions
Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

Cabinet Office , from 2014

Custodial history
Transferred from the Treasury to the Civil Service Department in 1968, then to the Management and Personnel Office in 1981 and then to the Cabinet Office in 1982.
Accumulation dates
From 1982
Accruals
Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background

The Management (Personnel) Group transferred to the Civil Service Department on its creation in 1968, with responsibility for duties relating to personnel and all other aspects of assisting central and departmental management to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Civil Service in the planning of programmes and the use of resources, including Civil Service manpower strategy and control. O and M surveys, statistics, training, provision of medical advisory services and welfare.

The Civil Service Department was dissolved in 1981 and the function transferred to the new Management and Personnel Office in 1981, which became part of the Cabinet Office in 1982.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13520994/

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Cabinet Office: Security Procedures and Practices in the Public Service Records