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Office of the Queen's Award to Industry and Queen's Awards Office: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: BT 315
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BT 315
This series contains records regarding policy, general and record files of the Office of the Queen's Award to Industry and the Queen's Awards Office. The records relate to the origins, organisation and review of the awards scheme by a committee...
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BT 315
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Queen's Award to Industry and Queen's Awards Office: Registered Files (QA (P,G and R suffix) and WVQ Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1965-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records regarding policy, general and record files of the Office of the Queen's Award to Industry and the Queen's Awards Office.
The records relate to the origins, organisation and review of the awards scheme by a committee under the chairmanship of Lord McFadzean, as well as to the processing of applications under the scheme. Papers of the main Advisory Committee, the Subordinate Committee on Export Achievement and the Steering Group on Exports are also included, together with a few papers of the subordinate Committee on Technology.
The WVQ prefix was used by the Queen's Award Office to cover the Queen's Awards Review 1999. At the suggestion of Buckingham Palace, the Queen's Awards Review was updated in 1999. The Government had asked that the review should take account of its wish to foster enterprise and innovation in business, as set out in the Competitiveness White Paper published in 1998. The Review, subsequently, was intended to cover all aspects of the Queen's Awards for Export, Technological and Environmental Achievement, including scope and eligibility. The review was led by a committee chaired by HRH The Prince of Wales, and the Queen's Awards Office retained secretariat duties. In order to extend the award's reach to more companies and industries, and to increase its prestige, the Queen's Award to Industry was renamed the Queen's Award for Enterprise. Files which have been selected for preservation include records of committee meetings, representations to the review by government departments and proposals for action arising from the review.
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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)
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QA (P, G and R suffix), WVQ file series
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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151 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2025 Department for Business and Trade
From 1994 Department of Trade and Industry
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3351/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Office of the Queen's Award to Industry and Queen's Awards Office: Registered Files (QA (P,G and R suffix) and WVQ Series)
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