Series
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
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 337
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Title (The name of the record)
- Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956-1959
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Description (What the record is about)
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Private office files of the Free Trade Area Office.
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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)
- FTA file series
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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)
- Paymaster General, Free Trade Area Office, 1957-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 56 file(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Cabinet Office
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to the Treasury in 1959 and then to the Cabinet Office in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1957 to 1959
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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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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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.
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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)