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Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and Successors

Catalogue reference: HWA

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HWA

Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and successors. For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

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HWA

Title
Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and Successors
Date

1956-2023

Description

Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and successors.

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

Related material

For records created or inherited by the Department for Transport (DfT) please see DFT

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Transport, 1976-1997
  • Highways Agency, 1994-2015
  • Highways England, 2015-2015
Physical description

40 series

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Subjects
Topics
Road Transport
Administrative / biographical background

The Highways Agency was established on 1 April 1994 and from 2002 was an executive agency of the Department for Transport (DfT).

The Agency has responsibility for managing the core road network in England. The Agency is responsible for delivering the DfT's road programme by maintaining, operating and improving the strategic road network (motorways and trunk roads) in England on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport.

On 1 April 2015, the Highways Agency government agency was converted into a government-owned company with the name Highways England.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C410/

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