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Catalogue reference: FCO 49

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FCO 49

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...

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FCO 49

Title
Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Planning Staff and Commonwealth Policy and Planning Department: Registered Files (PP, ZP and RS Series)
Date

1965-1990

Description

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
Arrangement

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.

Related material

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

PP, ZP and RS file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • 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
Physical description

1230 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Subjects
Topics
International
Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

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.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15108/

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