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Series
HM Treasury: Industry, Industry Agriculture and Employment, Industry and Regions...
Catalogue reference: T 589
What's it about?
T 589
This series contains records relate to policy and operational work regarding the energy programme expenditure, OFFER and OFGAS expenditure, OFTEL and OFT, UKAEA, and the DTI Small Firms Programme expenditure.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 589
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Title (The name of the record)
- HM Treasury: Industry, Industry Agriculture and Employment, Industry and Regions Division (IAE2) and successors: Records (ESFT prefix)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1992-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relate to policy and operational work regarding the energy programme expenditure, OFFER and OFGAS expenditure, OFTEL and OFT, UKAEA, and the DTI Small Firms Programme expenditure.
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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)
- ESFT prefix
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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)
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- Treasury, Financial Regulation and Industry Directorate, 1995-1998
- Treasury, Industry Sector, 1983-1983
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 44 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 2019 Treasury
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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
- Labour
- Nuclear energy
- Farming
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The National Archives Record Collection Policy RCP s.3.1.1 - Government's management of the UK economy
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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 Industry and Regions Division was formed in 1992, formerly Enterprise and Industry (EI, prefix). ESFT prefix closed in 1997, with business transferring to Industry (IND).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14148723/
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