Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Series

Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Employment and Productivity: Growth,...

Catalogue reference: EW 8

What's it about?

EW 8

This series contains selected files dealing with prices and incomes policy, including subjects such as the Joint Statement of Intent on Productivity, Prices and Incomes; the prices and incomes freeze of 1966; and price increases and wage...

Full description and record details

Reference

EW 8

Title
Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Employment and Productivity: Growth, Incomes and Prices Policy Division and successors: Registered Files, Economic Co ordination (EC Series)
Date

1958-1971

Description

This series contains selected files dealing with prices and incomes policy, including subjects such as the Joint Statement of Intent on Productivity, Prices and Incomes; the prices and incomes freeze of 1966; and price increases and wage rises.

The series includes minutes of meetings (e.g. the Medium Term Assessment Committee; the Official Committee on Incomes and Prices; etc), correspondence, policy papers, etc, relating to prices and incomes policy and to productivity. These include the views and activities of interested organisations, including the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and the referral of proposed price increases to the National Board for Prices and Incomes (NBPI).

Arrangement
Arrangement

The original numerical sequence of the creating body has been followed.

The files are arranged in the series as follows:

  • 1964 files: pieces 1-3 and 78-107;
  • 1965 files: pieces 4-10 and 108-458;
  • 1966 files: pieces 11-31;
  • 1967 files: pieces 32-62;
  • 1968 files: pieces 63-77.
Related material

See also Records of departments responsible for labour and employment matters and related bodies,

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

EC file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Economic Affairs, Growth, Prices and Incomes Policy Division, 1964-1967
  • Department of Economic Affairs, Industrial, Prices and Incomes Department, 1967-1968
  • Department of Employment and Productivity, Prices and General Policy Division, 1968-1970
Physical description

994 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

In 1988 Department of the Environment

Subjects
Topics
Labour
Inflation
Pay and pensions
Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

When, in 1965, the Economic Co-ordination Division was split into home and overseas responsibilities, the Growth, Prices and Incomes Policy Division came under the umbrella of Economic Co-ordination (Home).

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7163/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

6,587 records

Within the department: EW

Records of the Department of Economic Affairs

You are currently looking at the series: EW 8

Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Employment and Productivity: Growth, Incomes and Prices Policy Division and successors: Registered Files, Economic Co ordination (EC Series)

You may be interested in

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.