Catalogue description Ministry of Public Building and Works and Department of the Environment: Directorate of Research and Information and successors: Registered Files (RC Series)

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Reference: WORK 78
Title: Ministry of Public Building and Works and Department of the Environment: Directorate of Research and Information and successors: Registered Files (RC Series)
Description:

The files detail the research and information requirements of the building industry, the commissioning of research projects, the arrangement of exhibitions and lectures, the formulation of policy for construction research and policy on research at the Building Research Establishment.
Date: 1959-1974
Arrangement:

The files will be presented in former reference order thereby relecting their original administrative order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RC
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Directorate of Research and Information, 1970-1971

Department of the Environment, Directorate of Research Requirements, 1971-1977

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Research Policy Directorate, 1977-1980

Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1962-1970

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate of Research and Information, 1969-1970

Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
Physical description: 214 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Custodial history: Since the series ceased to accrue the records have been in the custody of the Department of the Environment (1980-1997), the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Accumulation dates: 1969-1980
Selection and destruction information: These records have been selected as they reflect the economic, social and democratic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Directorate of Research and Information was set up within the Ministry of Public Building and Works in 1969. It remained the Directorate of Research and Information when, in 1970, it became the responsibility of the Department of the Environment, but following a major re-organisation of the Department's research services in 1971, it was placed within the new Directorate of Research Requirements. With the renewed independence of the Department of Transport in 1976 it became the Housing and Research Division of the Research Policy Directorate in the newly-formed Department of the Environment/Department of Transport Common Services organisation.

RC files ceased to be raised when research work was re-organised along task-based rather then subject-based lines in 1980.

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