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Treasury: Overseas Finance (Statistics) Division: Registered Files (2 OF(S) Series)
Catalogue reference: T 308
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T 308
The files selected to date mainly concern balance of payments issues, and the Committee on Balance of Initial Payment Prospects, and the Working Party on Balance of Payment Trends.
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T 308
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Overseas Finance (Statistics) Division: Registered Files (2 OF(S) Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1960-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files selected to date mainly concern balance of payments issues, and the Committee on Balance of Initial Payment Prospects, and the Working Party on Balance of Payment Trends.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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2 OF(S) Series
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Treasury, Overseas Finance (Statistics) Division, 1960-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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12 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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The Overseas Finance (Statistics) Division, a support branch of the Finance Division, provided general guidance on the balance of payments of other countries, and the international monetary situation.
In 1962 the OF(S) Division became known as the Finance (Statistics) F(S) Division and took on work regarding Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Parties, sterling area and home financial statistics.
In September 1963 work on home financial statistics was transferred to Finance Home Division I. Finance (Statistics) Division had a close liaison with Central Economic Division (CE) when it was formed in January 1967.
In January 1969 F(S) Division became known as Finance (Balance of Payments) Division F(BP).
The division's most important work was the analysis, presentation and forecasting of the balance of payments (and, to a lesser extent, the international monetary situation generally) of other countries.
The division also contributed to a series of regular and ad hoc forecasting exercises, both short and long term. It was also involved in interdepartmental committees on the world economy.
The OF (S) Division dealt with the following matters:
Day to day overseas finance:
Statistics questions including:Parliamentary QuestionsSpeeches, information papers, etc.Submissions to international organisationsCurrent UK monetary and reserve positions;Statistics of the UK balance of payment;Payments in the past including:Balance of Payments White Paper and Economic SurveyOverseas investmentStatistics of aid for less developed territories;Balance of payments of:Rest of sterling areaNon-sterling areas;World reserve movements;World Economic Problems Working Party;Primary commodity prices;Commonwealth Liaison Committee (Statistics);Improvement of balance of statistics;UK balance of payments prospects, including:aid expenditure forecasts;Statistics on oil transactions -
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14045/
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Treasury: Overseas Finance (Statistics) Division: Registered Files (2 OF(S) Series)