Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Inner City Development and Successors:...

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Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Inner City Development and Successors: Registered Files (ICD, ICR and EC series).

1968-1997

This series records discussions on the government's Urban Programme, community projects and inner city policy.

The files are presented in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative arrangement.

ICR files can also be found in HO 390

ICD, ICR and EC

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
• Department of the Environment, Inner Cities Division, 1977-1991
• Department of the Environment, Planning Urban Policy Directorate, 1971-1974
• Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
• Department of the Environment, Urban Affairs Division 1, 1974-1977
• Home Office, Community Relations Department, 1970-1972

557 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2002 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Between 1997 and 2001 these records were with the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and from 2001 to the time of transfer to PRO, they were with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

File series began in 1970

Series is accruing.

These files were selected as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's acquisition policy).

The Home Office's Urban Programme was set up in 1969 under 1 Division and aimed to help local authorities which had areas within their boundaries with problems of special need and to direct funds where they were most needed. The functions were recorded in the ICR prefix (Immigration and Community Relations).

In 1974 the Urban Deprivation Unit was set up as a multi-disciplinary unit, with responsibility for the policy analysis and review on urban deprivation. The Unit assumed responsibility for the functions recorded in the ICR prefix together with those in the EC prefix. It was wound up in 1978/9.

The Department of the Environment prefix ICD (Inner Cities Divisions) produced files from 1977 with files being transferred into the prefix from the Planning Divisions.

Files exist for both Department of the Environment and Home Office between 1973 and 1977, with the Department of the Environment files being re-registered from Planning Divisions when the ICD was established in 1977. This is when ICD assumed sole responsibility for policy in this area. Only ICR files that had urban policy interests were transferred to ICD, and other files relating to race relations, immigration etc remained with the Home Office. ICR files, however, do not appear to have been re-registered under the ICD prefix.