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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
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Series
Transport Ministries: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Policy (DVLP Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 193
What's it about?
MT 193
This series contains registered files (DVLP Series) from the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Policy Division and predecessors. The records detail the development of policy in respect of driver and vehicle licensing.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 193
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Title (The name of the record)
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Transport Ministries: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Policy (DVLP Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files (DVLP Series) from the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Policy Division and predecessors. The records detail the development of policy in respect of driver and vehicle licensing.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Within each transfer the records are arranged by former reference reflecting their former administrative order.
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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)
- DVLP 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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- Department of the Environment, Centralised Licensing Directorate, 1970-1972
- Department of the Environment, Drivers and Vehicles Policy Division, 1976-1977
- Department of the Environment, Licensing Administration Division, 1973-1974
- Department of Transport, Driver and Vehicles Licensing Policy Division, 1978-1979
- Department of Transport, Driver Licensing, Vehicle Taxation and Insurance Division, 1981-1987
- Department of Transport, Driving and Driver Licensing Division, 1979-1981
- Ministry of Transport, Centralised Licensing Administration Division, 1969-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 82 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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From 2005 Department for Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Transport management
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Since the file series ceased to accumulate the records have been in the custody of the Department for Transport (1983-1997); the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001); the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002); and the Department for Transport (from 2002).
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1978 to 1982
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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)
- The records have been 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 of its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
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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 Centralised Licensing Directorate was established within the Ministry of Transport in 1969 to manage the centralised licensing project for vehicle registration and licensing and drivers' licensing. Responsibility for this project was assumed by a Directorate of the same name in the Department of the Environment in 1970. In 1973, the Department of the Environment's Licensing Administration Division was established with responsibility for developing vehicle registration and licensing policy; the operation of driver licensing and enforcement. This was succeeded in 1976 by the Drivers and Vehicles Policy Division. In 1978 the Driver and Vehicles Licensing Policy Division was established within the Department of Transport in 1978. Its remit was the development of policy in respect of driver and vehicle licensing. In 1979 this function was transferred to the Driving and Driver Licensing Division. In 1981 the function became the responsibility of the Driver Licensing, Vehicle Taxation and Insurance Division and it remained with that Division until DVLP files ceased to be raised in 1982.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16142/
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Transport Ministries: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Policy (DVLP Series) Files
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