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Series
Department for Work and Pensions: Strategy Group: Welfare Reform Unit
Catalogue reference: JB 121
What's it about?
JB 121
This series contains policy records including a review of the existing welfare state, responses to green papers and creation of both the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 and the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JB 121
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department for Work and Pensions: Strategy Group: Welfare Reform Unit
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains policy records including a review of the existing welfare state, responses to green papers and creation of both the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 and the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Sequentially, alphanumeric
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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)
- WBR, WBT, WFR
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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 for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 211 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 2025 Department for Work and Pensions
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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
- Pay and pensions
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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 function of the Welfare Reform Unit was to create policies and legislation to support the Labour Government's commitment of modernising the Welfare State in the UK.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19857051/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Department for Work and Pensions: Strategy Group: Welfare Reform Unit
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