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Series
Overseas Development Administration: Aid Policy Department: Registered Files (APD...
Catalogue reference: OD 116
What's it about?
OD 116
This series contains records of the Aid Policy Department on a wide variety of subjects including UK bilateral and multilateral aid policy.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 116
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration: Aid Policy Department: Registered Files (APD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1981-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Aid Policy Department on a wide variety of subjects including UK bilateral and multilateral aid policy.
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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)
- APD
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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)
- Overseas Development Administration, Aid Policy Department, 1980-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 79 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2014 Department for International Development
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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
- Aid and development
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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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The Aid Policy Department dealt with policy on the terms and conditions under which UK development aid was supplied and the co-ordination of aid with other donor countries and multilateral organisations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14069424/
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