Administrative records of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and related...

Administrative records of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and related and successor bodies relating to establishment matters and statistics.

They comprise annual reports in HLG 130, registered files of establishment divisions in HLG 124, files relating to complaints under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in HLG 149, registered files of the Statistics Branch in HLG 150, registered files of the Economics and Statistics Division in HLG 152, files relating to office machinery and procedure are in HLG 110 and local government financial statistics in HLG 32

• Department of the Environment, Establishment and Management Services, 1970-1983
• Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Establishment and Organisation Division, 1951-1970
• Ministry of Local Government and Planning, Establishment and Organisation Division, 1951-1951
• Ministry of Town and Country Planning, Establishment and Organisation Division, 1949-1951
• Ministry of Town and Country Planning, Establishment Division, 1943-1949

The Establishment Division of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning was responsible for the organisation, staffing and accommodation of the ministry and its successors. After 1949 it was renamed the Establishment and Organisation Division.

The division also supervised the work of the registry, library and press office. In 1964 a Statistics Branch was created, responsible for the compilation of statistics relevant to the work of the Ministry. This Branch was disbanded in 1969. Following the passage of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act of 1967, it became responsible for co-ordinating the department's response to complaints being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Omsbudsman).