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Civil Service Department: Lord Armstrong, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent...
Catalogue reference: BA 6
What's it about?
BA 6
The files in this series of Sir William Armstrong's papers deal mainly with economic policy matters after 1971, including counter-inflation policy and regional industrial policy, together with papers on the machinery of government and general...
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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BA 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Civil Service Department: Lord Armstrong, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Civil Service Department: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1968-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series of Sir William Armstrong's papers deal mainly with economic policy matters after 1971, including counter-inflation policy and regional industrial policy, together with papers on the machinery of government and general election of February 1974. The series also includes files of his radio and television interviews, lectures etc. in this period which were donated by Lord Armstrong.
Some files on counter-inflation measures reregistered for use by Armstrong's successor, Sir Douglas Allen, have been restored to their original sequence.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within subject headings
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files created by Armstrong were continued by his successor, Sir Douglas Allen; see
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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)
- Armstrong, William, 1915-1980
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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97 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 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Management and Personnel Office from 1981
Civil Service Department from 1981
Cabinet Office, Management and Personnel Office from 1981
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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)
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Files passed to the Management and Personnel Office on the abolition of the Civil Service Department in 1981.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected.
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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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Sir William Armstrong was Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department from November 1968 to his retirement in June 1974.
Armstrong was a career civil servant, who had risen to become Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury in 1962, and then, the first Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department in 1968.
He was appointed by Prime Minister, Edward Heath, to head a small group of civil servants advising the government on economic policy issues. Armstrong was later deeply involved in the talks on incomes policy between the Government, Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress.
Armstrong was made a life peer in 1975. He died in 1980.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2770/
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