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Series
Ordnance Survey Review Committee (Serpell Committee): Records
Catalogue reference: BS 13
What's it about?
BS 13
The series consists of evidence submitted, reports on evidence, agenda and minutes of the Ordnance Survey Review Committee meetings and a section of working papers.The records include copies of evidence and factual papers and comments on evidence...
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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BS 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ordnance Survey Review Committee (Serpell Committee): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1971-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series consists of evidence submitted, reports on evidence, agenda and minutes of the Ordnance Survey Review Committee meetings and a section of working papers.
The records include copies of evidence and factual papers and comments on evidence by the Ordnance Survey.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See Records of Ordnance Survey OS
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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)
- Ordnance Survey Review Committee, 1978-1979
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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81 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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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
- Maps and plans
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Gaps in the Ordnance Survey Review Committee series of submissions represent papers withheld on grounds of confidentiality or internal working papers wrongly allocated to the series; a few numbers were not taken up or submissions were withdrawn.
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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 Ordnance Survey Review Committee was set up in 1978 by the Secretary of State for the Environment, as an inter-departmental committee under the chairmanship of Sir David Serpell with membership drawn from H.M. Treasury, the Civil Service Department, Ordnance Survey and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government with the following terms of reference:
'To examine generally the organisation, policies and operation of the Ordnance Survey in the light of recommendation 100 of the Fulton Report as dealt with in the Vinter Report, and in particular to consider the extent to which the survey might be expected to operate on the basis of financial targets in the context of accountable management'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3029/
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