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Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)

Catalogue reference: T 337

What's it about?

T 337

Private office files of the Free Trade Area Office.

Full description and record details

Reference

T 337

Title
Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)
Date

1956-1959

Description

Private office files of the Free Trade Area Office.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

FTA file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Paymaster General, Free Trade Area Office, 1957-1959
Physical description

56 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2002 Cabinet Office

Custodial history

Transferred to the Treasury in 1959 and then to the Cabinet Office in 1997.

Accumulation dates

1957 to 1959

Accruals

No further accruals expected

Administrative / biographical background

By his personal minute dated 26 July 1957 the Prime Minister appointed the Paymaster General to be the minister supervising the development of the UK's European free trade area policy. The Free Trade Area Office was staffed by secondees from the Treasury.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15439/

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Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)