Series
Department of the Environment: Strategic Planning Directorate and successors, Registered...
Catalogue reference: AT 72
What's it about?
AT 72
These records are the registered files of the Department of the Environment's Strategic Planning Directorate and successors.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AT 72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of the Environment: Strategic Planning Directorate and successors, Registered files (SPD, PPU and CPPU file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1955-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records are the registered files of the Department of the Environment's Strategic Planning Directorate and successors.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in original departmental file reference order within each transfer.
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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)
- SPD, PPU and CPPU 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)
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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Directorate of Administrative Resources, 1990-1995
- Department of the Environment, Resource Allocation and Central Economic Services, 1972-1977
- Department of the Environment, Strategic Planning Directorate, 1970-1972
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Directorate of Administrative Resources, 1984-1990
- Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Economics and Statistics, 1977-1984
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 572 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 2002 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred from the Department of the Environment to the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Common Services in 1977 and then to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran 1970 to 1991
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Docket books and departmental electronic catalogue
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The Department of the Environment Operational Selection Policy, section 4.10, identified this series as an important source of information on the coordination of policy in the newly created department. Collections of non-primary material and inconclusive collections of correspondence have not been preserved.
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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 Strategic Planning Directorate was established in 1970 to meet the requirements of the Fulton report and the White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government.
The directorate was tasked with four main roles: Establishing a departmental programme structure;Coordinating and participating in programme analysis research;Setting existing programmes and policies in a longer term context by developing an agreed set of objectives for each area of departmental activity; andPromoting special analytical studies.
In 1972 the directorate had become part of the Department of the Environment, Resource Allocation and Central Economic Services. By 1977 these roles were being undertaken by the Central Policy Planning Unit within the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Common Services, Economics and Statistics [Branch].
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15687/
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Department of the Environment: Strategic Planning Directorate and successors, Registered files (SPD, PPU and CPPU file series)