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Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency (Halsbury Committee): Minutes, Papers and...
Catalogue reference: T 174
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T 174
Agenda, minutes, papers and report of the (Halsbury) Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency .
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- T 174
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency (Halsbury Committee): Minutes, Papers and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agenda, minutes, papers and report of the (Halsbury) Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency .
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files of the Third Finance Home (2 FH(3)) Division, set up in 1966 to deal with the introduction of decimalisation, see T 315
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency, 1962-1963
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- 13 file(s)
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The Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency was appointed in December, 1961, with the following terms of reference: To advise on the most convenient and practical form which a decimal currency might take, including the major and minor units to be adopted.To advise on the timing and placing of the changeover best calculated to minimise the cost.To estimate the probable amount and incidence of the cost to the economy of the proposals based on the above terms of reference.
Previous committees etc. on decimalisation were: The Select Committee on Decimal Coinage, 1853; records not known to surviveThe Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage, 1857The Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage, 1918; records not known to survive
Reports, Minutes etc. of this committee and these commissions were published as Parliamentary Papers.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13911/
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Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency (Halsbury Committee): Minutes, Papers and Reports