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Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee): Minutes, Reports and...

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T 251

Files relating to the functions of the Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee) and procedure together with annual reports, minutes of meetings, circulated case papers and associated correspondence. This committee, which was...

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T 251
Title
Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee): Minutes, Reports and Papers
Date
1936-1939
Description

Files relating to the functions of the Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee) and procedure together with annual reports, minutes of meetings, circulated case papers and associated correspondence. This committee, which was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, became the Capital Issues Committee in 1939.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee, 1936-1939
Physical description
25 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background

The Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee was appointed by the Chancellor of he Exchequer in April 1936 to advise him on applications his consent in respect of foreign issues and other similar transactions. In June of the same year Lord Kennet, the chairman, issued a memorandum on the functions of the committee which contained:

Copy of the Chancellor's letter to the chairman of the Stock Exchange Committee, 11 June 1933.

Terms of reference and instructions for the Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee circulated in Hansard, 7 April 1936.

The committee became the Capital Issues Committee in 1939.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13988/

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