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Series
Manpower Services Commission: Registered files (DIS Series)
Catalogue reference: ET 11
What's it about?
ET 11
This series contains registered files of the Manpower Services Commission concerning manpower strategy for Britain, policy and legislation.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ET 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- Manpower Services Commission: Registered files (DIS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1975-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Manpower Services Commission concerning manpower strategy for Britain, policy and legislation.
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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)
- DIS
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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)
- Manpower Services Commission, 1973-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2006 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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- Topics
- Labour
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Files were transferred in accordance with successive changes of name, function and responsibility between departments, After the demise of the Manpower Services Commission, records were in the custody of the Department of Employment to 1988, the Employment Department from 1988 to 1995, the Department for Education and Employment from 1995 to 2000, and the Department for Work and Pensions in 2001
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- The file series began in 1975
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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)
- This series meets TNA's Acquisition Policy theme 2.2.1.5 Formulation and delivery of social policies
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16330/
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