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Series
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Lotteries: Registered...
Catalogue reference: PF 305
What's it about?
PF 305
This series contains records relating to lotteries, including policy, distribution and relationships with other grant funding bodies, used in DCMS and predecessors, following the transfer of the policy portfolio from the Home Office in 1992.
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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PF 305
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Lotteries: Registered Files (LOT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1986-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to lotteries, including policy, distribution and relationships with other grant funding bodies, used in DCMS and predecessors, following the transfer of the policy portfolio from the Home Office in 1992.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related material generated by the Home Office's Betting, Gaming and Lotteries division can be found in HO 320
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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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LOT
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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 Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2017-2017
- Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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331 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 2024 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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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
- Sports
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Home Office 1986-1992; Department of National Heritage 1992-2001; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 2001-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17473237/
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Lotteries: Registered Files (LOT Series)
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