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Series
Government Actuary's Department: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: ACT 1
What's it about?
ACT 1
Correspondence, calculations and reports of the Government Actuary's Department on various subjects including national insurance, military, war, and civil service pensions, local authority superannuation, war risks compensation and the national...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ACT 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Actuary's Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, calculations and reports of the Government Actuary's Department on various subjects including national insurance, military, war, and civil service pensions, local authority superannuation, war risks compensation and the national debt. Also included are minutes, circulated papers and reports of various committees and bodies, including the Actuarial Advisory Committee, 1912 to 1917, and the Ryan Committee on Approved Society Finance and Administration, 1916.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2622 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 1969 Government Actuary's Department
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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
- National debt
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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/C1708/
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