Series
HM Treasury and Civil Service Department: Ceremonial Branch: Political Honours Scrutiny...
Catalogue reference: T 352
What's it about?
T 352
Files of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 352
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Title (The name of the record)
- HM Treasury and Civil Service Department: Ceremonial Branch: Political Honours Scrutiny Committee (PHSC Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1907-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Surviving records of the Royal Commission on Honours appointed in 1922 are in T 348
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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)
- PHSC 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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- Civil Service Department, Ceremonial Branch, 1968-1981
- Treasury, Ceremonial Branch, 1937-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 53 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 2010 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)
- Policy and innovative administration files are selected, under the Acquisition Policy criterion, formulation of policy and management of public resources by the core executive.
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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 Report of the Royal Commission on Honours in 1922 (Cmd 1789) recommended that a committee of the Privy Council be appointed to scrutinise recommendations for honours for political services and report its findings to the Prime Minister. This recommendation was adopted and scrutiny committees have examined all subsequent recommendations for honours for political services. The first secretary was required to be an assistant secretary in the Treasury and was appointed by order of the Lords of the Privy Council. By the 1960s it had become normal practice for one member to be appointed from each of the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties. The Committee's proceedings are generally informal and no minutes are taken.
The committee from time to time is made up of three privy councillors none of whom are members of the Government. The committee examines the 'political' names in the half yearly honours lists, the lists of proposed working peers, and the dissolution and resignation honours lists, and submits its findings to the Prime Minister. On each occasion that the committee convenes the chief whips of each of the parties will usually have formally certified that no payment or expectation of payment to any party or political fund is directly or indirectly associated with the recommendations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15777/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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HM Treasury and Civil Service Department: Ceremonial Branch: Political Honours Scrutiny Committee (PHSC Series) Files