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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Parliamentary Commissioner Unit and Parliamentary...
Catalogue reference: FCO 72
What's it about?
FCO 72
This series contains records of the Parliamentary Commissioner Unit and its successor dealing with relations between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and various parliamentary select committees.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Parliamentary Commissioner Unit and Parliamentary Commissioner and Committees Unit: Registered Files (PU Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1968-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Parliamentary Commissioner Unit and its successor dealing with relations between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and various parliamentary select committees.
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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)
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PU file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Parliamentary Commissioner and Committees Unit, 1969-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Parliamentary Commissioner Unit, 1968-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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203 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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
- International
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected at second review by FCO under PRO supervision, acquisition policy collection theme 2.2.1.3
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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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On the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, the work of managing relations between the office and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (under the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967) and various parliamentary committees, (previously handled by the Personnel Department), passed to a new Parliamentary Commissioner Unit. The unit's name was changed to Parliamentary Commissioner and Committees Unit in January 1969, to more accurately reflect its work, but its responsibilities were unchanged.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15444/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Parliamentary Commissioner Unit and Parliamentary Commissioner and Committees Unit: Registered Files (PU Series)
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