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Series
Office of Manpower Economics: Administration Files (SEC Series)
Catalogue reference: NJ 2
What's it about?
NJ 2
Records relating to the administration of the Office of Manpower Economics (OME), in particular its formation.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- NJ 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Manpower Economics: Administration Files (SEC Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1970-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records relating to the administration of the Office of Manpower Economics (OME), in particular its formation.
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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)
- SEC
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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)
- Office of Manpower Economics, 1970-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2016 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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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)
- Office of Manpower Economics (OME)'s non-current records are managed and stored by the Records Management Services in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). OME is an NDPB funded by BERR.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- from 1970
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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)
- Files have been selected under the following Acquisition Criteria in the Acquisition and Disposition Strategy (2007): 3.1.6 Reform of the state's organisational structure, including consitutional arangements and changes in the machinery of central and local government.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16599/
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