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Reference
(The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AT 44
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Department of the Environment and successor: Local Authority Finance (FLA Series) Files
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1956-2000
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Description
(What the record is about)
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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).
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
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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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 FLG series, see
AT 53
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference
(Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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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.
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Legal status
(A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language
(The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s)
(The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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559 file(s)
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Access conditions
(Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition
(When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1996 Department of the Environment
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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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- Topics
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Government finances
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Accruals
(Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information
(Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Routine case work files 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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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.
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2562/