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Overseas Development Administration: Aid Policy Department: Registered Files (DAP...
Catalogue reference: OD 51
What's it about?
OD 51
The records in this series of Aid Policy Department concern general policy on terms and conditions of development aid, third world indebtedness, commercial credit and commercial aspects of aid (including the Aid and Trade Provision), the aid...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 51
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration: Aid Policy Department: Registered Files (DAP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series of Aid Policy Department concern general policy on terms and conditions of development aid, third world indebtedness, commercial credit and commercial aspects of aid (including the Aid and Trade Provision), the aid policies of other developed states, and relations with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the parliamentary select committee on aid.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By original file series reference within three-year file cycle.
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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)
- DAP file 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)
- Overseas Development Administration, Aid Policy Department, 1980-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 14 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 1999 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1980-1996
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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)
- OD 51/1 was selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including this file on the mass lobby of parliament by the 'Fight World Poverty' campaign over the Brandt Commission report in 1981. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2005.
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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 incoming Conservative government in 1979 commissioned Sir Derek Rayner to report on the United Kingdom's overseas aid programme, and following his review aid policy changed so that it acted in support of wider policy objectives. As part of the process of managing this change a new Aid Policy Department was established in 1980 to oversee policy direction of development aid generally. The Department continued in this role until 1996, when it was succeeded by the Aid Policy and Resources Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14904/
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