Series
HM Treasury: Public Services and successors: Financial Management Strategy and Agencies...
Catalogue reference: T 561
What's it about?
T 561
The records concern the strategy and policy concerning next steps agencies, the financial management and the efficiency of government departments, privatisation and running costs.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 561
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Title (The name of the record)
- HM Treasury: Public Services and successors: Financial Management Strategy and Agencies (FMSA prefix): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records concern the strategy and policy concerning next steps agencies, the financial management and the efficiency of government departments, privatisation and running costs.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records are arranged chronologically and in file prefix order.
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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)
- FMSA prefix
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Treasury, Civil Service Management and Pay, 1990-1995
- Treasury, Financial Management; Public Services, 1985-1989
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2019 Treasury
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were stored with the Treasury at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1, to 1999. Thereafter the records were stored by a third party contractor prior to their transfer to The National Archives.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1993 to 1997
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- RCP - s.3.1.1 - Government's management of the UK economy.
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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 records were created by the Civil Service Management and Pay (sector), Management Policy and Running Costs Group, Financial Management Division. The function of this Division was the strategy for financial management in government departments and the creation of Next Steps Agencies; separate agencies created to carry out the executive functions of government within a policy and resource framework set by a department. The Next Steps strategy was advanced on a key government aim to reduce waste and make government more efficient. Each Next Steps Agency's Chief Executive Officer would have their respective function's daily responsibilities delegated to them by the sponsoring department's Minister to be run independently from the department but answerable to it.
The origins of the work of the Financial Management Division lie as far back as 1986 and the creation of the 'Financial Management: Public Services (sector)' where the issue of running costs started to be treated as a separate area of interest to the Treasury. Running costs concerned the administrative spending by central government and the costs of wages and salaries of officials employed in the Whitehall departments. From 1986 the Treasury introduced a separate control regime for running costs, delineating such spending from wider programmes, involving goods and services and capital expenditure aimed at achieving the policy goals of a department. Through the analysis of running costs came the necessity of efficiency and proper financial management in government as a policy aim in itself. The creation of Next Step Agencies in the 1990s was just such a scheme to ensure that government functions could be carried out as efficiently and inexpensively as possible.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14203285/
Catalogue hierarchy
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HM Treasury: Public Services and successors: Financial Management Strategy and Agencies (FMSA prefix): Registered Files