Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Establishment Division (Personnel)...

Files mainly cover policy on the employment and retirement of scientific and technological staff in Regional Offices and Industrial Research Establishments. One file relates to staffing requirements at the Department of Trade's Accidents Investigation Branch. Other files discuss the need for written appointments of Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State and written authorisations to exercise powers under the Merchant Shipping Acts.

• Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Division (Personnel), 1970-1972
• Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Personnel Division, 1972-1974
• Departments of Industry, Trade and Prices and Consumer Protection Common Services, Establishment Personnel Division, 1974-1983

From 2001 Department of Trade and Industry

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Shipping

Labour

Pay and pensions

Research

In July 1970 the Establishment Division of the Board of Trade was split into two new divisions, Establishment Division (Personnel), or E(P), and Establishment Division (Organisation). In October 1970 both divisions became part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) when the Board of Trade and divisions of the Ministry of Technology came together to form the DTI. On a reorganisation of the DTI's establishments work in June 1972 E(P) became Establishment Personnel Division (EP).

Following the splitting of the DTI in 1974 into three separate Departments (Industry, Trade, and Prices and Consumer Protection) EP became part of the common support services for these departments. It continued in this role following the merger of the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection with the Department of Trade in 1979. EP was renamed Personnel Management Division (PM) in February 1983.