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Commonwealth Relations Office: Personnel Department: Registered Files (PER Series)
Catalogue reference: DO 197
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DO 197
This series contains registered files of the Establishment and Organisation Division's Personnel Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office. The records are principally concerned with the investigations of the Plowden Committee into the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DO 197
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office: Personnel Department: Registered Files (PER Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Establishment and Organisation Division's Personnel Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office. The records are principally concerned with the investigations of the Plowden Committee into the possible integration of the Commonwealth, Foreign and Trade Commission services.
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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)
- PER 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)
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Personnel Department, 1960-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 52 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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- Topics
- International
- Trade and commerce
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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 Personnel Department was created in 1960. The establishment of the Diplomatic Service Administration Office (DSAO) in January 1965 took over all personnel matters from the Commonwealth Relations Office and led to the Personnel Department being dissolved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6206/
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