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Civil Service Department: Sir Douglas Allen, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent...
Catalogue reference: BA 7
What's it about?
BA 7
The files in this series of Sir Douglas Allen's papers relate to a number of issues, particularly general questions concerning the management of the Civil Service and relations with ministers. There are also papers on relations with the European...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BA 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Civil Service Department: Sir Douglas Allen, 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)
- 1963-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series of Sir Douglas Allen's papers relate to a number of issues, particularly general questions concerning the management of the Civil Service and relations with ministers. There are also papers on relations with the European Economic Community and British overseas representation.
Some of the files (otherwise in BA 6) are continuations of Allen's predecessor, Sir William Armstrong, and therefore pre-date Allen's appointment in July 1974. Some files were kept open after Allen's retirement in order to complete a subject and have been included in this series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Primarily chronological
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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)
- 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)
- Allen, Douglas Albert Vivian, 1917-1917
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 48 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1984-2010 Cabinet Office
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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)
- Files passed to the Management and Personnel Office, Cabinet Office, on abolition of the Civil Service Department in 1981.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Douglas Allen, later Lord Croham, was Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department from July 1974 to December 1977. He was made a life peer in 1978.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2771/
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Civil Service Department: Sir Douglas Allen, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Civil Service Department: Papers
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