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Series
Property Services Agency: Secretariat and Planning Unit: Registered Files (SAPU Series)
Catalogue reference: CM 10
What's it about?
CM 10
Files of the Secretariat and Planning Unit of the Property Services Agency (PSA), which dealt with corporate planning, management reviews, organizational structure and the effects of new legislation on PSA, as well as providing secretarial...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CM 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Property Services Agency: Secretariat and Planning Unit: Registered Files (SAPU Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1960-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Secretariat and Planning Unit of the Property Services Agency (PSA), which dealt with corporate planning, management reviews, organizational structure and the effects of new legislation on PSA, as well as providing secretarial functions to the PSA Board, PSA Management Group and PSA Regional Management Board.
The files in this series contain minutes and papers of these and other important board meetings. There are also papers relating to particular sites or projects, eg Chatham Dockyard.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Where the SAPU prefix has occasionally been added to, e.g. EOD, RA or RP, this was merely an unofficial extension used for in-house convenience. They are of no special significance.
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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)
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SAPU file series
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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)
- Property Services Agency, 1972-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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669 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1990 Property Services Agency
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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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- Topics
- Manufacturing
- Navy
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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 Secretariat and Planning Unit reported directly to the Property Services Agency Board, which met monthly, and the Management Group, which met weekly, preparing research papers on policy matters.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4115/
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