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Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files
Catalogue reference: BT 223
What's it about?
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 223
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1929-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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60 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
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1970 Department of Industry
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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
- Trade and commerce
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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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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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3260/
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Home Office: Consumer Safety Unit: Files
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