Home Office: Co-ordination (COR symbol series) Registered Files

HO 408

1966-1979

Files relate to Home Office consideration of local and private bills, European legislation, law and procedure governing parliamentary and local government elections.

Files are arranged in former reference order.

COR symbol series

Public Record(s)

English

14 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

from 2014 Home Office

Topics

Democracy

From 1967

Series is accruing.

Files have been selected, under Acquisition Policy theme 2.2.1 Policy and administrative processes of the state, which show internal Home Office discussions of legislation proposed by other government departments and members of parliament where this is believed likely to supplement information to be found in parliamentary records or the files of the other government department.

E4 Division within the General Department was responsible for co-ordination of Home Office interest in international matters and for local Acts, private Bills and certain bye-laws. The unit obtained the views of interested divisions on policy and legislation proposed by other government departments when no one division had the major interest. In the early 1990s co-ordination on international matters was handled by A Division of the Criminal Justice and Constitutional Unit, while D Division of the general Department handled local and private Bills and bye-laws. On the establishment of the New Directorate structure in 1996, co-ordination became the responsibility of the Byelaws Unit and the Constitutional Unit of the Constitutional and Community Policy Directorate.