Series
Department of the Environment: Finance, Environmental Services Division: Registered...
Catalogue reference: AT 37
What's it about?
AT 37
This series contains registered files of the Finance, Environmental Services Division of the Department of the Environment. The files relate to Exchequer grants, including financial assistance to local authorities; coast protection grants; grants...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AT 37
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of the Environment: Finance, Environmental Services Division: Registered Files (FES Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1955-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Finance, Environmental Services Division of the Department of the Environment.
The files relate to Exchequer grants, including financial assistance to local authorities; coast protection grants; grants and various claims for compensation arising under the Town and Country Planning Acts 1954 and 1962; and grants relating to public open spaces under the Local Government Act 1966.
The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FES series from the FLGD (AT 30), AGD (HLG 151), and 98507 (HLG 52 and HLG 71) series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records on local government finance see: HLG 154
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For files re-registered into the FHG series, see:
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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)
- FES 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)
- Department of the Environment, Finance, Environmental Services Division, 1974-1994
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 58 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1995 Department of the Environment
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1974
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Major policy files have been selected for preservation, while casework files dealing with payment of grants to various local authorities have been destroyed.
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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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The Finance, Environmental Services Division was established in 1974. It was responsible for financial control of votes for public service transport, public health and avoidance of pollution, miscellaneous environmental services, and rate support grants.
Between 1972 and 1974 these functions had been carried out by the Department's Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate. Prior to 1972 this was the responsibility of the Accountant General's Department of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of Economic Affairs.
By 1977, the Finance, Environmental Services Division also had responsibility for residual work of the Land Commission, and the following year for water authority borrowing and financial policy. By 1983, the division additionally had financial responsibilities for local environmental services, local planning services, urban programmes, urban development corporations and new towns, and by 1985 for ancient monuments and historic buildings.
In 1994, the division merged with the Finance Sponsored Bodies and Agencies Division to form the Finance, Environmental and Sponsored Bodies Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2555/
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Department of the Environment: Finance, Environmental Services Division: Registered Files (FES Series)