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Series
Department of Social Security: Registered Files of Registry 25, Permanent Secretary's...
Catalogue reference: JB 60
What's it about?
JB 60
This series contains registered files of the Permanent Secretary's Office. At this time the Permanent Secretaries did not keep registered files, and there is no record of any papers belonging to Sir Michael Partridge (1988 to 1995) or Rachel...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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JB 60
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Social Security: Registered Files of Registry 25, Permanent Secretary's Office
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Date (When the record was created)
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1987-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Permanent Secretary's Office.
At this time the Permanent Secretaries did not keep registered files, and there is no record of any papers belonging to Sir Michael Partridge (1988 to 1995) or Rachel Lomax (1999 to 2002). Dame Ann Bowtell, Permanent Secretary 1995 to 1999, did submit some of her personal papers for preservation and these can be found JB 3. Similarly Ministers in this period did not keep registered files. Some Ministerial papers for the period 1994 to 1997 were recovered after the 1997 General Election.
The material on the registered files is high level policy and strategy put to the Permanent Secretary. They also contain Board papers, whose records are not preserved elsewhere.
Registry 25 prefixes:
- AGY = Agency.
- BFT = Benefits.
- BGY = Benefits Agency.
- BOW = Dame Ann Bowtell.
- CHA = Citizens Charter.
- DBD = Departmental Board.
- DBN = Disability Benefits.
- FRD = Fraud.
- GOV = Local government.
- MBD = HQ Management Board.
- NAO = National Audit Office.
- NCI = Helping small business.
- PAC = Public Accounts Committee.
- PCA = Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.
- RCD = Royal College Defense studies.
- SSC = Social Security Select Committee.
- SUN = Permanent Secretaries meetings.
- SWD = Strategy Weekend.
- SYS = Social Security Seminar.
- TRI = Independent Tribunal Service.
- VIS = visits.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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93 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2017 Department for Work and Pensions
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Department of Social Security 1988–2001; then Department for Work and Pensions 2001-
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1988 to 2001
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selection and destruction as per OSP5
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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 Department of Health and Social Security split in 1988. The Departmental Records Office of Health and Social Security did not split until 1995. Registry 25 was created in 1995, although some material dates from 1988. The registry was closed in 2001 when the department merged with Department of Employment and became Department for Work and Pensions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16323477/
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Department of Social Security: Registered Files of Registry 25, Permanent Secretary's Office
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