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Treasury: Home and Overseas Planning Staff Division and successors: Registered Files...

Catalogue reference: T 234

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T 234

Files of the Home and Overseas Planning Staff (HOPS) Division. They cover a wide range of topics relating to economic policy including:investmentnationalised industrieswages and pricesnational resourceslocation of industriesscientific and...

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Reference

T 234

Title
Treasury: Home and Overseas Planning Staff Division and successors: Registered Files (HOP Series)
Date

1939-1961

Description

Files of the Home and Overseas Planning Staff (HOPS) Division. They cover a wide range of topics relating to economic policy including:

  • investment
  • nationalised industries
  • wages and prices
  • national resources
  • location of industries
  • scientific and technological manpower
  • monopolies and restrictive practices
  • Economic Survey
  • Economic Planning Board,
  • National Production Advisory Council on Industry and relations with such bodies as European Free Trade Association, European Economic Community, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, Euratom, European Coal and Steel Community.
Arrangement
Arrangement

Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)

Related material

Related material for predecessor divisions can be found in: T 232 T 235 T 238

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

HOP file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Treasury, Home and Overseas Planning Staff Division, 1956-1958
  • Treasury, National Resources Divisions I and II, 1958-1962
  • Treasury, Overseas Co-ordination Division, 1962-1962
Physical description

768 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1981 Treasury

Accumulation dates

1956 to 1960

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

The Home and Overseas Planning Staff (HOPS) Division was established in 1956, taking over the work of the Central Economic Planning Section, the Mutual Aid Division, European Economic Cooperation Committee, Overseas Negotiation Committee Division, and, in 1958, some of the work of the Trade and Industry Division. The series includes some re-registered files from these divisions.

HOPS was dissolved in 1958 and its work transferred to the Overseas Co-ordination Division and the National Resources Divisions, I and II. The files of these divisions continued to be registered in the HOP series until they were closed in April 1960.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13971/

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Treasury: Home and Overseas Planning Staff Division and successors: Registered Files (HOP Series)