Series
British Railways Board: Organising for Quality Office and Steering Group: Records
Catalogue reference: AN 197
What's it about?
AN 197
This series contains records of the simplification of organisation of regions and departments, consultancy papers, and records of the Organising for Quality Steering Group.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AN 197
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Railways Board: Organising for Quality Office and Steering Group: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the simplification of organisation of regions and departments, consultancy papers, and records of the Organising for Quality Steering Group.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Broadly chronological
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- British Railways Board, Organising for Quality Office, 1989-1993
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 170 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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2002-2010 BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Created by the British Railways Board and passed by them to British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd in February 2001.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1989-1993
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Illustrative of the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK. Policy records and reports have 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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In 1989 a study by Coopers & Lybrand recommended that British Rail should simplify its organisation and decentralise on business lines. An Organisation for Quality (OfQ) team was established to lead the initiative. In 1990 profit centre teams were given six months to devise new organisational structures. A series of reports were produced by the teams working on OfQ for the Chief Executive's forum in June 1990. After this the OfQ Steering Group was established to deal with questions raised. The concept of"trading" was important to OfQ and denoted the ability of profit centres to do business with each other.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15924/
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British Railways Board: Organising for Quality Office and Steering Group: Records