Series
Welsh Office: Welsh Council Registered Files (CW Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 56
Date: 1968-1980
This series consists of a small accumulation of registered files which were created and used for dealing with matters concerning the Welsh...
Series
Welsh Office: Devolution Group: Registered Files (DEW Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 137
What's it about?
BD 137
This series contains records from the Welsh Office's Devolution Group. These records are primarily focused on Welsh Office arrangements for the 1997 Devolution Referendum and drafting of the relevant legislation, as well as preparations for the...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 137
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Devolution Group: Registered Files (DEW Series)
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-1999
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains records from the Welsh Office's Devolution Group. These records are primarily focused on Welsh Office arrangements for the 1997 Devolution Referendum and drafting of the relevant legislation, as well as preparations for the new National Assembly for Wales following a victory for the 'Yes' campaign on Welsh devolution.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- DEW
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
-
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
- Welsh Office, Devolution Group, 1997-2003
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 32 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
In 2020 Welsh Government
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Devolution
-
Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
In May 1997, the Labour government of Tony Blair was elected with a promise of creating a devolved assembly in Wales.
The referendum resulted in a 'Yes' vote and led to the creation of The National Assembly for Wales under the Government of Wales Act 1998.
The Government of Wales Act 2006 which created an executive body, the Welsh Assembly Government, separate from the legislature, the National Assembly for Wales. It also conferred on the National Assembly some limited legislative powers.
The Welsh Office's Devolution Unit was responsible for all devolution policy, as well as planning for the creation of a National Assembly (which was a manifesto commitment of the Labour Party). The Devolution Unit was not part of a larger group within the Welsh Office, and worked directly to the Permanent Secretary. By 2003, the unit had been disbanded and any residual work subsumed by other divisions.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17103579/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
19,427 records
Within the department: BD
Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office
You are currently looking at the series: BD 137
Welsh Office: Devolution Group: Registered Files (DEW Series)
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.