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Series
Home Office: Home Secretary: Prison Services Monitoring
Catalogue reference: HO 606
What's it about?
HO 606
This series contains records relating to Prison Services Monitoring.
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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HO 606
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Home Secretary: Prison Services Monitoring
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Date (When the record was created)
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1993-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to Prison Services Monitoring.
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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)
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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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to closure for periods up to 85 years
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Fom 2022 Ministry of Justice
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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
- Prisons
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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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These records were created by the Home Office, but transferred to the Ministry of Justice in 2007 as part of a Machinery of Government change.
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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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The Home Office was responsible for creating these records related to Prison Services Monitoring. Since 2007, responsibility for this function has passed to the Ministry of Justice.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17851073/
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