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Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee): Minutes, Reports and...
Catalogue reference: T 251
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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
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee): Minutes, Reports and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1936-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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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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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee, 1936-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 25 file(s)
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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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Foreign Transactions Advisory Committee (Kennet Committee): Minutes, Reports and Papers