Records of the Public Finance [Sector] and Successors

Division within T

1981-1997

Records of the Public Finance Sector and successors.

Records may concern any of the following activities: general taxation policy; direct taxation; coordination of tax issues relating to the annual Budget and Finance Bills; indirect taxation; Consolidated Fund; National Loans Fund; Civil List; judicial salaries and pensions; Parliamentary and European Elections expenses; Bank of England and the prudential supervision of banks and deposit taking institutions; Trustee Savings Bank; National Girobank; European Community banking legislation; consumer credit; building societies; Registry of Friendly Societies; city matters including investor protection; insurance companies; pension funds; Stock Exchange; government lending arrangements; Royal Mint and coinage; local authority borrowing; National Savings; formulation of monetary policy; monetary control techniques; government debt sales; domestic financial markets; analysis and reporting developments; monitoring and forecasting public sector accounts; briefing on Public Sector Borrowing Requirements (PSBR); international comparisons of government public sector accounts.

Public Finance, Home Finance Group, Public Sector Finances Division records (PFF prefix) T 546.

Public Finance (Sector) and successors: Banking and Consumer Credit (BNK prefix) registered files T 555.

Public Finance (sector) and successors: Banking Services Division (BSE prefix) registered Files T 556

Public Finances and successors: Mutual and Financial Institutions (MFI prefix) registered files T 564.

Fiscal Policy: Central Co-ordination of Tax and other Policy (CCTP file prefix) registered files T 565.

Public Finance, Financial Insitutions and Markets: Securities and City Division (FIM 2) registered files (FME prefix) T 572.

Public Finance, Home Finance Group, Public Loans Division; Records (PCLB prefix) T 573.

Public Finance, Financial Institutions and Markets: Securities and City Division and General Financial Issues Division registered files (SCD prefix), T 575.

Public Finance: Financial Institutions and Markets, Banking Group and successors records (CMB prefix) T 582.

Public Finance: Securities and Investment Services: SIS3 and successors: registered files (FSCIS prefix: Financial Services Collective Investment Schemes) T 605.

Public Finances, Securities and Investment Services, SIS 1 and Successors registered files, LSE Prefix (London Stock Exchange) T 607.

Fiscal Policy Division and successors: Inland Revenue (IR file prefix) registered files T 612.

Financial Institutions and Markets and successors: General Financial Institutions Division (GFID prefix) T 616.

Public Finance and successors: Settlement Issues Including Dematerialisation (SID prefix) T 618.

Public Finance: Monetary Group and successors: Records (NSNL prefix) T 619.

Budget and Public Finances Monitoring: Registered Files (BMPF prefix) T 653.

Public Record(s)

English

15 series

Open unless otherwise stated

Treasury

Topics

Government finances

Mutual societies

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Democracy

Inflation

Pay and pensions

Debt

Friendly societies

National debt

Banking

The records were created and held by the Treasury until 1999. Thereafter, the records were stored with a third party contractor prior to their transfer to The National Archives.

Public Finance [sector] was created in 1984 and was formerly apart of Counter Inflation and Public Finance. The functions of the new Public Finance [sector] originated in the Domestic Economy Sector and its successor (the Domestic Economy Command) which existed from 1981 to 1984.

Public Finance [sector] comprised the following organisational structure:

Fiscal Policy Group comprising the following Divisions: Direct Tax Division; Indirect Tax Division. Home Finance Group comprising the following Divisions: Accounts Division; Financial Institutions Division; Public Loans Division; Monetary Policy Division; Public Sector Finances Division.

Public Finance continued to 1994 when it its functions were redistributed to two new sectors: Fiscal and Monetary Policy [sector] and Industry and Financial Institutions [sector] and their respective sub-divisions.