Series
Catalogue reference: BT 223
BT 223
This series contains Home Office six figure series files relating to matters of consumer safety which until 1974 was a Home Office responsibility.From 1974-1980 responsibility rested with the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection and from...
This series contains Home Office six figure series files relating to matters of consumer safety which until 1974 was a Home Office responsibility.
From 1974-1980 responsibility rested with the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection and from 1980 with the Department of Trade.
For files in the CSU series used by the Consumer Safety Unit of the Fair Trading Division of the DPCP, see JF 1
Files of the Home Office and Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, Fair Trading Division, are in HO 371
Files in the HSY Symbol Series, which was used by the Home Office (for files on home safety) and later the DPCP are in HO 381
Other files relating to fireworks are in HO 95
From 1970 Department of Industry
From before the Second World War until 1974 responsibility for consumer safety rested with the Home Office. On the establishment of the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (DPCP) in 1974 consumer safety became one of its responsibilities, and a Consumer Safety Unit was established in 1977.
On the dissolution of the DPCP in 1980, responsibility was transferred to the Department of Trade.
Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files
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