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Cabinet: Lord President's Committee and Subordinate Committees and Home Affairs Committee,...
Catalogue reference: CAB 132
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CAB 132
This series consists of the minutes and papers of the Lord President's Committee 1946-1951, and of its various sub-committees; those sub-committees which continued in existence under the Home Affairs Committee, after the Lord President's...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAB 132
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet: Lord President's Committee and Subordinate Committees and Home Affairs Committee, Sub-committees: Minutes and Papers (LP and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1945-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the minutes and papers of the Lord President's Committee 1946-1951, and of its various sub-committees; those sub-committees which continued in existence under the Home Affairs Committee, after the Lord President's Committee was abolished in 1951 are included in this series.
The series covers a wide range of topics including civil science policy, pay of the higher civil service, industrial productivity, space research, agricultural research, and natural resources.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within original subject classification; papers/memoranda predate minutes they refer to but are filed after them in list
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the records of the Offices of the Lord President of the Council, Minister of Reconstruction and Minister for Science
Earlier records of the Lord President's Committee from 1940 are in CAB 71
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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)
- Cabinet, Home Affairs Committee, 1919-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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223 files and volumes
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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 1975 Cabinet Office
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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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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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The Lord President of the Council's Committee was set up in 1940. It had a number of sub-committees covering various issues of domestic policy. It was abolished in October 1951 by the incoming Conservative government. Its work was transferred to the Home Affairs Committee, appointed in November 1951 and chaired by the Lord President. A number of sub-committees of the Lord President's Committee continued in existence under the Home Affairs Committee; they included the Natural Resources (Technical) Committee, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and Committee on Overseas Scientific Relations.
At the time of the change, the Lord President also became 'Co-ordinating Minister' for Food and Agriculture, and retained responsibility for Privy Council Research Committees.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3939/
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