Series
Welsh Office: Welsh Council Registered Files (CW Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 56
Date: 1968-1980
This series consists of a small accumulation of registered files which were created and used for dealing with matters concerning the Welsh...
Series
Welsh Office: Permanent Secretary's Division: Registered Files (PSD Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 82
What's it about?
BD 82
This series contains files raised and used in the Permanent Secretary's Division between 1975 and 1980. Selected files relate to: moves to a proposed devolution to a National Assembly of Wales from 1975 and the repeal of the Wales Act 1978 which...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Permanent Secretary's Division: Registered Files (PSD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1974-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files raised and used in the Permanent Secretary's Division between 1975 and 1980. Selected files relate to: moves to a proposed devolution to a National Assembly of Wales from 1975 and the repeal of the Wales Act 1978 which effectively ended this policy strategy after the ascendancy of Conservative government to power in 1979. Records also concern the review of non-departmental public bodies and quangos instigated by the incoming Conservative government after 1979.
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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)
- PSD 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)
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 35 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 National Assembly for Wales
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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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- Topics
- Devolution
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Inherited by the National Assembly for Wales in 1999.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- c1978 to 1980
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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 majority of files in this series were destroyed at first review - its content related to routine though often high level administration of the Welsh Office.
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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 Permanent Secretary's Division was created in 1976. It was disbanded in 1987 when Central and Management Services Division 2 of the Establishment Group took over its functions.
The functions of the Division were: to review the Welsh Office's activities and resources; provide information and co-ordinated appraisals of policy and organisational issues; to provide secretariat for the Conference of Heads of Government offices in Wales; policy and procedural matters on public appointments and non-departmental public bodies; to support the Permanent Secretary on policy and planning matters concerning the whole of the Welsh Office; coordination of departmental briefing; policy and procedural matters relating to the Welsh Affairs Committee; liaison on contingency matters and Royal matters.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15163/
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