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Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors and successor: Housing...
Catalogue reference: HLG 118
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HLG 118
These files of the Housing sections and divisions of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment are a continuation of earlier files to be found in HLG 47. They include policy file...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HLG 118
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors and successor: Housing Department, later Division: Local Authority, Registered Files (H and HAMU Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1925-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files of the Housing sections and divisions of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment are a continuation of earlier files to be found in HLG 47. They include policy file relating to rents, house building, housing subsidies and improvement grants, and the impact of building regulations on housing. The series also includes files relating to the Housing Subsidies Act 1967, the Rent Act 1965, the Ronan Point building collapse, the sale of council housing and to specific local authority slum clearance and housing development schemes.
Includes files re-registered from RB file series, in WORK 75and files of the Housing Analysis and Monitoring Unit (HAMU), which used the same numbering structure as the general Housing files (H series)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files which were not re-registered remained in the old file series and are to be found in HLG 47
See also AT 62
For other related files see HLG 157
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some of KB series re-registered to
Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series see:
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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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H file series and HAMU 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)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4881 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1984 Department of the Environment
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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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This series includes files of the Housing sections and divisions of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8813/
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