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HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group: Aid and Overseas...

Catalogue reference: T 436

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T 436

These records concern general policy on aid to, and financial relations with, developing countries; Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure, including overseas development administration. Typical areas of work covered are as follows: Foreign...

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Reference

T 436

Title
HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group: Aid and Overseas Services Division: Records (GOA series)
Date

1981-1987

Description

These records concern general policy on aid to, and financial relations with, developing countries; Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure, including overseas development administration. Typical areas of work covered are as follows: Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure; aid/trade provisions; international trade and commodities; overseas aid; Crown Agents; Commonwealth Development Corporation; territorial responsibilities for Africa, Mediterranean, Middle East, Atlantic Territories, Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean, non-Communist South and South East Asia, the Far East and Pacific.

'GOA' file series prefix denotes the function 'General Overseas Aid'.

Arrangement

The files are arranged chronologically in file reference order.

Related material

See also T 317

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

GOA

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Treasury, Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group, 1975-1984
Physical description

231 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2013 Treasury

Accumulation dates

1981 to 1997

Accruals

Series is accruing.

Selection and destruction information

Acquisition Policy themes: 3.1.1 - Management of government revenues and expenditure; 3.1.4 - Regulation and support of Economic Activity by Government.

Administrative / biographical background

The General Aid Division was created in 1981 under the Aid and Export Finance Group and thereunder the Overseas Finance Sector of HM Treasury. The Aid and Export Finance Group fleetingly had two other divisions: the Export Finance Division and the Oil and Overseas Services Division. However, by 1984 this had reduced to a single Aid and Overseas Services Division (AEF1). The Group seems to have lasted at least until 1997.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12176873/

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HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group: Aid and Overseas Services Division: Records (GOA series)