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Records created and inherited by the Department of Energy and Climate Change and...

Catalogue reference: SU

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Records of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

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Reference

SU

Title
Records created and inherited by the Department of Energy and Climate Change and predecessors and associated bodies
Date

1990-2024

Description

Records of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

Related material

For records of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), see ESNZ

For records of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), see BEIS

For records of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), see SR

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2008-2016
  • Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, 2004-2004
Physical description

65 series

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Administrative / biographical background

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created on 3 October 2008 to take over some of the energy policy functions of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and some of the climate change mitigation policy functions of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). DECC brought together much of the Climate Change Group of DEFRA with the Energy Group from BERR.

DECC's initial three stated overall objectives were to: ensure our energy is secure, affordable and efficient; bring about the transition to a low-carbon Britain; achieve an international agreement on climate change at Copenhagen in December 2009.

On 14 July 2016, DECC was merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to create the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C393/

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Records created and inherited by the Department of Energy and Climate Change and predecessors and associated bodies