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Division
Private Office papers
Catalogue reference: Division within PIN
What's it about?
Division within PIN
Papers that were retained in the Private Office of the Parliamentary Secretary (National Insurance) and not placed on registered files, concerning national assistance, national insurance and family allowances, pension schemes and benefits. ...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within PIN
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Title (The name of the record)
- Private Office papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers that were retained in the Private Office of the Parliamentary Secretary (National Insurance) and not placed on registered files, concerning national assistance, national insurance and family allowances, pension schemes and benefits.
Consists of:
- PIN 70, Private Office papers of the joint parliamentary secretary (national insurance), mainly relating to parliamentary bills.
- PIN 87, Petition Case files, mainly concerning rates of benefit and pensions payable, the administration and policy development of various social security benefits and individuals' benefit entitlements.
- PIN 92, Ministers' papers, mainly concerning policy development and implementation.
No records are held in series PIN 85 (Private Office: Correspondence Files).
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 series
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Private Office of the Ministry comprised the immediate secretariat of the department's ministers and most senior officials.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C980/
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