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Cabinet Office: Defence and Oversea Policy Committees and Sub-Committees: Minutes...
Catalogue reference: CAB 148
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CAB 148
This series contains the minutes and papers of the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee (Ministerial and Official) and its sub-committees.The terms of reference for the Ministerial Committee and Official Committee can be found in CAB 148/15 and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 148
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet Office: Defence and Oversea Policy Committees and Sub-Committees: Minutes and Papers (DO, DOP, OPD and OPDO Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the minutes and papers of the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee (Ministerial and Official) and its sub-committees.
The terms of reference for the Ministerial Committee and Official Committee can be found in CAB 148/15 and 16 respectively.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
CAB 148/1-64 are listed in alphabetical order of symbol (i.e. the letters used as the first part of the reference for the committee's papers). Later papers will be added in chronological order of administration. It should be noted that the symbol changed with each change of administration.
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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)
- DO, DOP, OPD and OPDO file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Cabinet Office, 1916-1916
- Cabinet Office, Defence and Oversea Policy Committee, 1963-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 409 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1993 Cabinet Office
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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As part of the reorganisation of the Central Organisation for Defence (Cmnd 2097) the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee (DOPC) was formed on 1 October 1963 by direction of the Prime Minister. It succeeded the Defence Committee dating from 1940 and the Oversea Policy Committee dating from 1962.
The DOPC was chaired by the Prime Minister. Its terms of reference was 'to keep under review the Government's defence and oversea policies'. Membership of the committee included the first Secretary of State, the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer or Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Home Secretary, the Commonwealth and Colonial Secretary and the Minister of Defence.
The terms of reference for the Official Committee was 'to consider questions of defence and oversea policy'. The Official Committee was chaired by the Secretary of the Cabinet. Membership of the committee included the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, the Permanent Under Secretary at the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Permanent Under Secretary at the Colonial Office, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, the Chief of the Defence Staff, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence and the Permanent Secretary at the Board of Trade.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3955/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: CAB
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Cabinet Office: Defence and Oversea Policy Committees and Sub-Committees: Minutes and Papers (DO, DOP, OPD and OPDO Series)