Series
Treasury: Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee: Minutes
Catalogue reference: T 203
What's it about?
T 203
Minutes of the meetings of the Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 203
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee: Minutes
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917-1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes of the meetings of the Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee, 1917-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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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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At the beginning of the First World War the need for speedy decisions on expenditure led the Treasury to devise new ways of exercising its control over departments. In order to avoid delay while ensuring that proposals were given proper examination, a Naval Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee was set up in August 1914 with representatives of the Admiralty and Treasury. The committee considered urgent proposals brought before it by the Admiralty, of sufficient importance to need Treasury sanction, but not involving major questions of policy, and made recommendations to the Treasury.
In March 1917 a Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee was set up to consider proposed expenditure by the Ministry of Shipping.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13940/
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Treasury: Shipping Expenditure Emergency Standing Committee: Minutes