Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Planning Staff and Commonwealth...

This series consists of registered files of the Foreign Office Planning Staff (January 1967 to October 1968), the Commonwealth Office Policy and Planning Department (January 1967 to October 1968) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Planning Staff (October 1968 onwards) relating to policy planning matters.

Arrangement is by former file reference. The ZP series files in this series are a continuation of earlier files created by the Foreign Office Planners, but from January 1967 the registration system used was altered from the earlier 'jacket' system to a registered file system in preparation for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968. Records of the ZP series, and in the Commonwealth Office PP series created by the Commonwealth Policy and Planning Department were inherited by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Planning Staff on the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968. A new RS series was used by the FCO Planning Staff from October 1968.

For earlier Commonwealth Relations and Commonwealth Office Policy and Planning Department files see DO 193

• Commonwealth Office, Policy and Planning Department, 1967-1968
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Planning Staff, 1968-1987
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Policy Planning Staff Department, 1988-1990
• Foreign Office, Planning Staff, 1965-1968

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Planning staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its immediate predecessors handled strategic and policy planning matters and, in the case of the Commonwealth Office, arrangements for the various Commonwealth Conferences.