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Department of the Environment and successor: Local Authority Finance (FLA Series)...

Catalogue reference: AT 44

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AT 44

This series contains registered files concerning local authority finance. The files relate to the supervision of local government capital funds, rate support grant policy, and legislation on local government finance. Material on the Greater...

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Reference

AT 44

Title
Department of the Environment and successor: Local Authority Finance (FLA Series) Files
Date

1956-2000

Description

This series contains registered files concerning local authority finance.

The files relate to the supervision of local government capital funds, rate support grant policy, and legislation on local government finance. Material on the Greater London rate equalisation scheme is also included.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FLA series from the FIN series (HLG 154) and the 90,000 series (HLG 89).

Arrangement
Arrangement

Files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.

Separated material

For files re-registered into the FLG series, see

AT 53

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

FLA 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, Local Authority Division, 1971-1974
  • Department of the Environment, Finance Divisions, 1970-1976
  • Department of the Environment, Local Government Finance Division, 1970-1997
  • Department of the Environment, Local Government Finance Policy Directorate, Local Authority Division, 1974-1983
  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
  • Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Finance Division, 1951-1970
Physical description

559 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1996 Department of the Environment

Subjects
Topics
Government finances
Accruals

Series is accruing

Selection and destruction information

Routine case work files have been destroyed.

Administrative / biographical background

Until the creation of the Department of the Environment (DOE), functions concerning local authority finance had been carried out by the Local Government Finance Division (Branch FIN 1) of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

In 1971, the Local Authority Division within the Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate of the DOE was established and was responsible for the supervision of local government capital funds and control of capital expenditure, rate support grant policy and legislation on local government finance until 1974.

From 1974 to 1983 responsibility rested with the Local Authority Division of the Local Government Finance Policy Directorate and from 1983 to 1988 by the Local Authority and Rates Division and Rates Legislation Division of the same directorate. From 1989 onwards the functions were exercised by the Local Authority Capital Finance Division of the Directorate.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2562/

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