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Series
Department of Work and Pensions: Ministers and Senior Officers Papers
Catalogue reference: JB 75
What's it about?
JB 75
This series consists of files created by the Department of Work and Pensions Secretaries of State, Ministers and Senior Officers. The subject matter mainly relates to social security policy initiation and development at the most senior level in...
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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JB 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Work and Pensions: Ministers and Senior Officers Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1997-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files created by the Department of Work and Pensions Secretaries of State, Ministers and Senior Officers. The subject matter mainly relates to social security policy initiation and development at the most senior level in the Department
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged sequentially
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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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DNZ, DOE, DOF, DOG, DQB, DQC, DQD, DQE, DQF, DQG, DQH, DQJ, DQK, DQM, DQM, DQN, DQO, DQP, DQQ, DQT, DQW, DQX, DQY, DRD, DRE, DRF, DRH, DRJ, DRK, DRN, DTB, DTD, DTF, DTG, DTH, DTJ, DTK, DTO, DTP, LAA, LAI, LAF, LAG, LAI Prefixes
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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)
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- Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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626 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2020 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
- Pay and pensions
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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These records are from the Employment Service from 1997 which was incorporated into Department for Work and Pensions in 2001 along with Jobcentre Plus
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17073801/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: JB
Records created or inherited by the Department for Work and Pensions
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Department of Work and Pensions: Ministers and Senior Officers Papers
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