Series
Welsh Office: London Office: Registered Files (LO and LOP Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 115
What's it about?
BD 115
This series contains registered files (LO and LOP series) of the Welsh Office, London Office.
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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BD 115
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: London Office: Registered Files (LO and LOP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1980-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files (LO and LOP series) of the Welsh Office, London Office.
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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)
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LO and LOP Series
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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)
- Welsh Office, London Office (Gwydyr House), 1966-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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10 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2012 Welsh Government
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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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Significant records of corporate management have been preserved (OSP7).
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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 London Office at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, has existed since the inception of the Welsh Office in 1966. It was the location for the Permanent Secretary of State for Welsh Affairs' private office. The Permanent Secretary also had another private office at Cathays Park, Cardiff for when he visited the Cardiff headquarters.
From 1976 a Permanent Secretary's Division was created at Cardiff to coordinate senior and corporate management policy to the Welsh Office emananting from the Permanent Secretary. The London Office continued in parallel with this new Division in its role as a Westminster base for the Permanent Secretary. The Permanent Secretary's Division was discontinued at Cardiff in 1986 when a return to a more simple organisational structure of London and Cardiff Permanent Secretary's offices was reintroduced.
The Permanent Secretary had responsibility in Wales for ministerial functions relating to health and personal social services; education, except for terms and conditions of service of teachers and for student awards; the Welsh language; arts and culture; local government; housing; water and sewerage; environmenal protection; sport; agriculture and fisheries; forestry; land use, including town and country planning; countryside and nature conservation; new towns; ancient monuments and historic buildings; roads; tourism; training and careers service; financial assistance to industry; the Strategic Development Scheme in Wales; the operation of the European Regional Development Fund in Wales and other European Union matters; non-departmental public bodies; civil emergencies; and all financial aspects of these matters, including Welsh support grant. The Permanent Secretary had oversight responsibilities for economic affairs and regional planning in Wales.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16381/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: BD
Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office
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Welsh Office: London Office: Registered Files (LO and LOP Series)