Series
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution: Registered Files (HMIP Series)
Catalogue reference: AT 99
What's it about?
AT 99
The series contains records of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) and includes Management Board minutes; policy development and consultations relating to pollution, waste, discharges to water, Radon gas; nuclear industry...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AT 99
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Title (The name of the record)
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution: Registered Files (HMIP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains records of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) and includes Management Board minutes; policy development and consultations relating to pollution, waste, discharges to water, Radon gas; nuclear industry consultations; Hinckley Point 'C' Public Inquiry and papers for the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC). It also includes records on the setting up of the Environment Agency in 1996.
The series contains records which pre-date the creation of HMIP.
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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)
- HMIP
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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, Hazardous Waste Inspectorate, 1983-1987
- Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate, 1983-1987
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, 1987-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 265 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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2010-2017 Environment Agency
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series started in 1987
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under section 2.2.2.2 of The National Archive's acquisition policy, impact of the state on the natural environment.
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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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On the 1 April 1987 the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate was transferred from Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to the Department of the Environment and together with the Radiochemical Inspectorate, the Hazardous Waste Inspectorate and a newly created Water Inspectorate, formed Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16463/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AT
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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution: Registered Files (HMIP Series)