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Series
Department of Employment: Ministerial Group on Women's Issues: Registered Files (61/EM...
Catalogue reference: JB 73
What's it about?
JB 73
The records relate to the Ministerial Group on Women's Issues which was established in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher to provide a co-ordinated examination of policy issues of special concern to women, and with a particular duty to consider the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JB 73
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Employment: Ministerial Group on Women's Issues: Registered Files (61/EM prefix)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1983-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records relate to the Ministerial Group on Women's Issues which was established in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher to provide a co-ordinated examination of policy issues of special concern to women, and with a particular duty to consider the Government's response to the forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women (adopted during the United Nations decade for women).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records are arranged by former reference within each transfer.
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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)
- 61/EM
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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 Employment, 1970-1988
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 126 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 2019 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
- Sex and gender
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The Department for Work and Pensions became custodians of the series in 2001 when it replaced the Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1986-1992
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16915369/
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