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Series
Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Accommodation: Registered...
Catalogue reference: BN 11
What's it about?
BN 11
Policy and case files relating to the provision, alteration, decoration and repair of local offices, and the provision of equipment for the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors, by the Ministry of Works and its successors.The series...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BN 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Accommodation: Registered Files (AC Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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Policy and case files relating to the provision, alteration, decoration and repair of local offices, and the provision of equipment for the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors, by the Ministry of Works and its successors.
The series also contains correspondence relating to the experiments conducted on sharing Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance offices with other government departments.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files relating to the control of regional and local social security offices are in PIN 81
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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)
- AC file series
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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 Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
- Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 23 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1981 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 not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The case files containing correspondence with local offices have been chosen for illustrative purposes.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2945/
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