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Department of the Environment: Business Rents Division and successors; Registered...

Catalogue reference: AT 77

What's it about?

AT 77

These records deal with the Department of the Environment's administration of the Business Rent Order which froze business rents at their 1972 level.

Full description and record details

Reference

AT 77

Title

Department of the Environment: Business Rents Division and successors; Registered Files (BRD Series)

Date

1972-1973

Description

These records deal with the Department of the Environment's administration of the Business Rent Order which froze business rents at their 1972 level.

Arrangement

Files will be presented in former reference order, thereby reflecting their former administrative arrangement.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

BRD

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Department of the Environment, Business Rents Division, 1973-1974
Physical description

1 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

from 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Custodial history

From 1991 to 1997 the records were housed at the Department of the Environment; from 1997 to 2001 they were with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and from 2001 to the time they were transferred to PRO, they were with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

Accruals

Series is accruing

Selection and destruction information

The files were selected on the basis that they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individual, communities and organisations outsides its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's acquisition policy).

Administrative / biographical background

The Business Rents Division was set up in 1973 and was responsible for the application the government's counter-inflation policy and the administration of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15855/

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Department of the Environment: Business Rents Division and successors; Registered Files (BRD Series)