Series
Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee): Records
Catalogue reference: AT 10
What's it about?
AT 10
This series consists of records of the Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee).The records include material submitted as written evidence to the committee, transcripts of oral evidence, other written evidence...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
-
AT 10
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee): Records
-
Date (When the record was created)
-
1974-1976
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series consists of records of the Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee).
The records include material submitted as written evidence to the committee, transcripts of oral evidence, other written evidence circulated to sub-groups within the committee, and the committee's report and the letter by which it was presented to the secretary of state (AT 10/525-526).
An index to all this material, arranged alphabetically by name of the contributor, is also included (AT 10/1).
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
-
Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
-
English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance, 1974-1976
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
-
526 papers
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
-
Open
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Environment on 27 June 1974. Its terms of reference were 'to review the whole system of local government finance in England, Scotland and Wales, and to make recommendations'. The committee was chaired by Sir Frank Layfield, QC.
The report of the committee (Cmnd 6453) was published in May 1976.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2528/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AT
Records created or inherited by the Department of the Environment, the Department...
You are currently looking at the series: AT 10
Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee): Records