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Series
Home Office: Prison Department: Administration (DIS Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 475
What's it about?
HO 475
The records relate to the functions and responsibilities of the Home Office concerning prison farms and industries. The records mainly comprise of the Senior Management Committee meetings minutes and papers relating to this function. A corporate...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 475
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Prison Department: Administration (DIS Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records relate to the functions and responsibilities of the Home Office concerning prison farms and industries. The records mainly comprise of the Senior Management Committee meetings minutes and papers relating to this function. A corporate name was adopted in 1972 for prison industries and farms - PRINDUS.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records are arranged in former reference order.
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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)
- DIS Symbol Series
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Originals held at (The organisation that holds the original record)
- The National Archives
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, Prison Department, 1963-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 26 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2010 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were held by the Home Office Prisons Department until the late 1980s whereupon they were moved to semi-current storage in the Home Office headquarters for appraisal and review. The records were passed from the Home Office to the Ministry of Justice in 2007 when the prisons function passed to that body.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1970 to 1982
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Some policy files have been selected to illustrate the function of prison farms and industry management.
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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 Directorate of Industries and Supplies was created in 1970. It comprised a Production Engineering Unit; a Work Study Unit; Management Accountant Unit; and a Farms and Gardens Unit. By 1975 a Prison Industries Unit had been added.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18506/
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Home Office: Prison Department: Administration (DIS Symbol Series) Files
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