Series
Civil Service Department: Machinery of Government Group: Machinery of Government...
Catalogue reference: BA 17
What's it about?
BA 17
Files of the Machinery of Government Group relating to a wide range of issues, including organisation of central and local government; review and hiving-off of departmental functions; dispersal of the Civil Service outside London; enquiries into...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BA 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Civil Service Department: Machinery of Government Group: Machinery of Government (MG Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Machinery of Government Group relating to a wide range of issues, including organisation of central and local government; review and hiving-off of departmental functions; dispersal of the Civil Service outside London; enquiries into the legislative process, etc.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier machinery of government files are in T 222
There is also related material in T 330
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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)
- MG 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)
- Civil Service Department, Personnel Services Divisions, Machinery of Government Group, 1969-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1460 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 2000 Cabinet Office
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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)
- The MG file series included files on changes to central government organisational structures which were identified for permanent preservation at second review in accordance with the published PRO acquisition policy (paragraph 2.2).
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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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From 1942 the ministerial Machinery of Government Committee assisted by official committees dealt with machinery of government questions; at the end of 1945 the Ministerial Committee decided that the Treasury should accept the responsibility and a small MG section was set up; in 1947 it was incorporated into the Organisation and Methods Section. In 1968 the machinery of government function passed to the new Civil Service Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15160/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: BA
Records of the Civil Service Department
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Civil Service Department: Machinery of Government Group: Machinery of Government (MG Series) Files