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Series
Home Office: Prison Department, Personnel and Finance (DPG symbol series)
Catalogue reference: HO 539
What's it about?
HO 539
This series contains records relating to the review and implementation of prison staff procedures and conditions, equality and diversity, industrial relations, and information technology.
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 539
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Prison Department, Personnel and Finance (DPG symbol series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1991-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the review and implementation of prison staff procedures and conditions, equality and diversity, industrial relations, and information technology.
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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)
- DPG symbol series
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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, Prison Department, 1963-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 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 Ministry of Justice
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14383605/
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