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Department of the Environment: Finance (Local Government and Development) (FLGD Series)...

Catalogue reference: AT 30

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AT 30

This series contains registered files of the Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate.The files deal with all aspects of local government finance covering a variety of financial subjects, including payment of legal costs, public...

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Reference

AT 30

Title
Department of the Environment: Finance (Local Government and Development) (FLGD Series) Files
Date

1965-1976

Description

This series contains registered files of the Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate.

The files deal with all aspects of local government finance covering a variety of financial subjects, including payment of legal costs, public expenditure surveys, estimates and appropriation accounts.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered from the AG series (HLG 151). The papers on these files pre-date the creation of the Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate and were created by the Accountant General's Department of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and by the Establishments and Finance Division of the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources.

Related material

Further files dealing with local government finance will be found in HLG 154 HLG 52

Separated material

For files re-registered into the FES series, see

AT 37

For files re-registered into the FHG series, see

AT 45

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

FLGD file series. This is one of several series which used five digit primary numbers; these numbers originated in the Ministry of Health file registration system.

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Department of the Environment, Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate, 1971-1974
Physical description

22 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

from 1995 Department of the Environment

Accumulation dates

1972 onwards

Selection and destruction information

Routine case-work files, such as those containing grant estimates, have not been preserved.

Administrative / biographical background

The Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate was established in 1971, soon after the creation of the Department of the Environment.

The directorate initially comprised five divisions: Local Authority Division, which dealt with local government finance and capital expenditure, and rate support grant policy;Local Taxation Division, which dealt with local government taxation and local valuation panel supervision;Highways Division, which dealt with financial matters in relation to highways and roads;Local Government and Development Division, which dealt with specific grants to local authorities; andLocal Government Superannuation Division, which dealt with local government superannuation.

By 1973 the division dealing with local government superannuation had been dropped, thus leaving the directorate with four divisions.

In 1974 the directorate was abolished after the bodies dealing with local government financial affairs were reorganised.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2548/

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Department of the Environment: Finance (Local Government and Development) (FLGD Series) Files