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Department of Economic Affairs: Economic Planning Division and successors: Registered...

Catalogue reference: EW 24

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EW 24

Subjects dealt with in this series include the National Plan, heavy industries, housing, economic aspects of population growth and trends, British relations with the European Economic Community including negotiations for entry, the third London...

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Reference
EW 24
Title
Department of Economic Affairs: Economic Planning Division and successors: Registered Files (EP, 1EP and 2EP Series)
Date
1959-1970
Description

Subjects dealt with in this series include the National Plan, heavy industries, housing, economic aspects of population growth and trends, British relations with the European Economic Community including negotiations for entry, the third London airport, defence, Rhodesia, the monetary devaluation of 1967, the National Economic Development Council and the Growth Project of the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Cambridge.

The series also includes several files with the prefix EQ originally opened by the Ministry of Technology.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Original numerical sequence of creating body has been followed.

Files in the series are prefixed EP, 1EP and 2EP indiscriminately so that it is possible to have 3 parts of the same file with 3 different prefixes. The files are numbered both numerically and alphabetically. The numerical system being used until 1966 and the alphabetical from 1966 to 1969. Some of the files that were originally registered numerically were later re-registered alphabetically.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
EP file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
245 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

In 1990-2004 Department of the Environment

Subjects
Topics
Government finances
Trade and commerce
Air transport
Population
Housing
Africa
Custodial history
Transferred by the Department of Economic Affairs to the Ministry of Technology and then to the Department of Environment.
Accumulation dates
1965-1970
Accruals
No further accruals expected
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7179/

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