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Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and Successors
Catalogue reference: HWA
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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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HWA
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records created or inherited by the Highways Agency and Successors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956-2023
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Description (What the record is about)
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records created or inherited by the Department for Transport (DfT) please see DFT
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 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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- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
- Highways Agency, 1994-2015
- Highways England, 2015-2015
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 40 series
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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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- Topics
- Road Transport
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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 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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C410/
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