Series
Cabinet: Home Affairs Committee: Minutes and Papers (HAC and HA Series)
Catalogue reference: CAB 26
What's it about?
CAB 26
This series consists of the printed minutes of the Home Affairs Committee.
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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CAB 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet: Home Affairs Committee: Minutes and Papers (HAC and HA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1918-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the printed minutes of the Home Affairs Committee.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the successor body, the Home Policy Committee see CAB 75
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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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HAC and HA 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Cabinet, Home Affairs Committee, 1919-1939
- War Cabinet, Home Affairs Committee, 1918-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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24 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1964 Cabinet Office
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1918-1939
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Printed minutes of the Home Affairs Committee are indexed.
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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 Home Affairs Committee was set up in July 1918 by the Home Secretary, George Cave. Its brief was "to consider all domestic questions which require the co-operation of more than one department, and of such importance that they would otherwise call for consideration of the Cabinet. " Originally the Committee dealt with general administration including aspects of demobilisation, aliens and medical and scientific research. Increasingly however it became the forum in which forthcoming government legislation was examined.
From 1922 to 1939 it met under the chairmanship of the Lord Chancellor, and was attended by most ministers dealing with civil affairs, Law Officers and Parliamentary Counsel. Draft Bills were considered in their final forms and detailed adjustments were made. The Committee then recommended Bills to Cabinet for authority for their introduction in Parliament. Each Bill was given a classification of its relative importance to facilitate government business.
In 1939 it was reconstituted as the Home Policy Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3833/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: CAB
Records of the Cabinet Office
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Cabinet: Home Affairs Committee: Minutes and Papers (HAC and HA Series)