Commonwealth Relations Office: Planning and Research Unit: Registered Files (PLA Series)

Available are: Online catalogue (The National Archives website), detailed lists, some original registers of correspondence.

Under the terms of the Public Records Acts 1958 and 1967 documents are transferred after 30 years to The National Archives and opened to the public.

91 files

This series contains registered files of the Commonwealth Relations Office's Planning and Research Unit, covering such subjects as background material for speeches given by ministers, conference organisation and papers, and planning papers on the future of British overseas policy and of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth Relations Office, Planning and Research Unit, 1962-1964

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