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Civil Service Department: Management (Personnel) Branch 5: Home and Overseas Allowances...
Catalogue reference: BA 20
What's it about?
BA 20
Files relating to departments', ministers', MPs', armed forces, civil servants and diplomatic service allowances, expenses, and other non-pay emoluments, including questions of their liability to income tax, compensation for the effects of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BA 20
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Title (The name of the record)
- Civil Service Department: Management (Personnel) Branch 5: Home and Overseas Allowances (HOA/MP(5) Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1908-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to departments', ministers', MPs', armed forces, civil servants and diplomatic service allowances, expenses, and other non-pay emoluments, including questions of their liability to income tax, compensation for the effects of devaluation of the pound, etc.
There are correspondence and papers created in the Treasury and pre-dating the constitution of the Civil Service Department from, for example, the 2/CP, 2/DOP, 2/DP, and 2/EG Treasury series, but the papers were brought together in 1968 within the Civil Service Department branch registry and incorporated in the HOA/MP(5) series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier Treasury files on public sector allowances are in: T 322 T 323 T 324
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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)
- HOA/MP(5) 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)
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- Cabinet Office, 1916-1916
- Civil Service Department, Management (Personnel) Branch 5, 1968-1972
- Civil Service Department, Personnel Management Group, 1973-1981
- Management and Personnel Office, 1981-1982
- Treasury, 1667-1667
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 90 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Cabinet Office
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- HM Treasury until 1968, then Civil Service Department until 1981; then Management and Personnel Office until transferred to the Cabinet Office in the same year.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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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Responsibility for allowances, expenses, etc. was transferred from the Treasury to the Civil Service Department on the latter's constitution in 1968.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15441/
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