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Department of Trade and Industry: Ministers Offices; Electronic Diary System (POEMS):...
Catalogue reference: NK 5
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NK 5
This series contains records of the Department of Trade and Industry, Ministers Offices, Electronic Diary System (POEMS), originally held in NK 2. These records were transferred to this series as part of the programme of migration of digital...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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NK 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Trade and Industry: Ministers Offices; Electronic Diary System (POEMS): Digital Records formerly in NK 2.
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Date (When the record was created)
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1986-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Department of Trade and Industry, Ministers Offices, Electronic Diary System (POEMS), originally held in NK 2.
These records were transferred to this series as part of the programme of migration of digital records at The National Archives in March 2008 and were presented via Electronic Records Online until 2014.
The Private Office Engagement Management System (POEMS) was used to list Minister's engagements. The diaries include Minister's canceled and private engagements, but they do not contain personal data.
There are diaries from nine ministerial offices, covering the engagements of all the Department's Ministers. Among those figures whose engagements are listed are: Lord Young, Nicholas Ridley, Peter Liley and Michael Heseltine; Francis Maude, John Redwood and Neil Hamilton; Alan Clarke, Lord Trefgarne and Tim Sainsbury; Kenneth Clarke, Tony Newton, Douglas Hogg and Edward Leigh; John Butcher, Eric Forth, Lord Hesketh, Lord Reay and Richard Needham; Tim Eggar, Baroness Denton and Lord Strathclyde. The engagements of the Department's Permanent Secretaries, Sir Brian Hayes and Sir Peter Gregson, are also provided.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The files are arranged in chronological order within each ministerial office.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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NK 2
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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)
- Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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50 electronic document(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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in 2003 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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There will be no further additions to the series
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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 Private Office Engagement Management System (POEMS) was developed by software consultants AMP Systems Limited in 1985. Information was provided by Private Secretaries in each ministerial office, and the system was updated daily. Only the Secretary of State's Private Secretaries had access to all the ministerial diaries. The Private Office Engagement Management System was not associated with any other information system.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
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Output from the Electronic Diary System was used to produce the Adobe Portable Document Files.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16573/
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