Focus on
Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
Series
Department of Transport: Transport Policy Urban Division (TPUD): Registered Files
Catalogue reference: LM 24
What's it about?
LM 24
This series contains Bill papers for the Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LM 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Transport Policy Urban Division (TPUD): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Bill papers for the Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by former reference
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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)
- TPUD prefix
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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)
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- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, Transport Policy Urban Division (TPUD), Economics Directorate, 1994-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5 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 2024 Department for Transport
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Transport Policy Urban Division (TPUD) was set up in 1990 as primarily an economic division with general responsibility for intermodal transport issues and environmental issues. It sat under Traffic Policy and London Region until 1994 when it passed to Economics. It was replaced in 1997 by Transport and the Environment Division (TED).
Files selected for retention are comprised almost entirely of the Bill papers for the Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998. The Act requires the Secretary of State for Transport when considering setting or updating road traffic reduction targets or reports to take account of congestion, pollution, road danger, health, landscape and biodiversity, social and climate impacts at such times as they deem appropriate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18590907/
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