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SDA1 Annual reports 1975-1991
SDA2 Minutes of Meetings 1975-1991
SDA3 Board Papers 1975-1989
SDA4 Members' Papers 1978-1991
SDA5 Publications 1984-1988
SDA6 Staff Handbook and Directories 1988
SDA7 Inherited records 1935-1975
SDA8 Development Consultative Committee: Minutes - Not held by NRS, retained by SDA/Sc.Ent.
SDA9 Development Consultative Committee: Numbered Papers 1977-1990
SDA10 Development Consultative Committee: Miscellaneous Papers 1977-1990
SDA11 Property Policy Group: Minutes - Not held by NRS, retained by SDA/Sc.Ent.
SDA12 Property Policy Group: Papers 1984-1991
SDA13 Administrative Committee: Minutes 1981-1987
SDA14 Financial Expenditure Meetings: Minutes - Not held by NRS, retained by SDA/Sc.Ent.
SDA15 Financial Expenditure Meetings: Papers 1989-1991
SDA16 Regional Enterprise Development Group: Minutes - Not held by NRS, retained by SDA/Sc.Ent.
SDA17 Regional Enterprise Development Group: Papers 1988-1991
SDA18 Executive Meetings: Minutes - Not held by NRS, retained by SDA/Sc.Ent
SDA19 Executive Meetings: Papers 1986-1991
SDA20 Glasgow Garden Festival 1985-1988
SDA21 Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre (SECC) 1981-1985
SDA22 Scottish Development Agency Land Renewal Unit photographic albums 1978-1992 (not catalogued)
SDA23 Scottish Development Agency Crafts Section 1957-c1990 |
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The Scottish Development Agency was established in 1975 to further the development of Scotland's economy, provide and maintain employment, promote industrial efficiency and to improve the environment by providing financial assistance for industrial undertakings, the management and modernisation of premises and bringing derelict land into use or approving recovern schemes.
Sir William Gray was appointed Chairman and led a small Organising Committee prior to the establishment of a full Board on 15th December 1975 when the Agency brought together three pre-vesting organisations whose staff were transferred to the Agency:
The Scottish Industrial Estate Corporation (SIEC).
This corporation and others had been responsible for the Government's factory building programme in Scotland since 1937.
The Small Industries Council for Rural Areas of Scotland (SICRAS).
The Council and its predecessors had been responsible for the provision of advisory and other services and loans to small industries in rural areas since 1935.
The Land Renewal Unit.
The Unit was a small group of staff of the Scottish Development Department responsible for a programme of grants to assist derelict land clearance and environmental recovery schemes. Key staff members were seconded to the Agency for the development of its environmental programme but they maintained a continuing responsibility for the administration of grants on schemes already approved.
The Scottish Development Agency was dissolved on 31 March 1991 and replaced by Scottish Enterprise, a non-departmental public body, which was established on 1 April 1991 under the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990. |