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Series
War Office: Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State: Reports
Catalogue reference: WO 350
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WO 350
Reports on various aspects of army finance, including estimates and accounts of expenditure as well as pay and allowances, conditions of service, supplies, stores and transport.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 350
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1947-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports on various aspects of army finance, including estimates and accounts of expenditure as well as pay and allowances, conditions of service, supplies, stores and transport.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier reports on army expenditure see WO 287
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- War Office, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is a list of references for earlier reports (in WO 33 and WO 287) with the paper list in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew
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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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Reports on the Accounts of Army Expenditure had been produced as 'A' or 'B' papers until 1938, after which they appeared as ordinary reports; this series contains the reports for 1939/1940 to 1955/1956.
In 1959 these reports were slightly modified and re-named as The Novel: Reports on Events Affecting Permanent Under-Secretary of State's Department; they were published between 1959 and 1963 and covered events between 1956/1957 and 1959/1960. Production of The Novel was discontinued in 1963.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14554/
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