Treasury: Accounts Branch: Registered Files (A/CS C Series)

T 276

1915-1979

Files of the Accounts Branch of the Treasury. The files concern the Treasury's accounting responsibilities and Exchequer control over receipts and issues. They cover such subjects as civil list, the Exchequer Equalisation Account, the Royal Naval Prize Fund, and financial dealings with other countries.

Also includes files of the F series which were reregistered as part of the A/CS C series in 1948.

Most of the files are from the period 1950 to 1970

Arrangement is by former reference number

A/CS C file series

Public Record(s)

English

195 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1987 Treasury

1948

Series is accruing

The Accounts Branch was set up in 1870. In the period 1948 to 1986 it was divided into two sections, the Exchequer Section and the Grants Section, although the sections were later amalgamated. The Exchequer Section controlled, recorded and accounted for all receipts into, and issues from, the Exchequer (i.e. the Consolidated Fund, National Loans Fund, and certain other central accounts).

The Grants Section carried out the accounting duties connected with all votes for which the Treasury was the responsible Accounting Department, although this work was later transferred to the Establishment and Organisation (EOG3) Division 3 - Finance Division. In amalgamated form, the Accounts Branch still deals with the Grant Section's work on claims for Parliamentary and European Assembly election expenses, policy work on these expenses, and on accidents (e.g. in polling booths ); the latter role was taken over from Social Services (SS) Division in the mid-1970s.