Series
Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (Wilson Committee):...
Catalogue reference: BS 9
What's it about?
BS 9
The series contains files of evidence, with minutes of meetings, circulated papers, correspondence and the final report of the Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (Wilson Committee).
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BS 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (Wilson Committee): Evidence Files and Registered Files (FI Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains files of evidence, with minutes of meetings, circulated papers, correspondence and the final report of the Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (Wilson Committee).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Evidence files are in alphabetical order.
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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)
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FI file series
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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)
- Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions, 1976-1980
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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225 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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 Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions was appointed by the Prime Minister on the 7th October 1976 under the chairmanship of Sir Harold Wilson.
Broadly the review was to cover all those institutions and their associated markets connected with the channelling of savings in the economy. Among the institutions were the Bank of England, other banks, finance houses, life insurance companies, pension funds, building societies, and the Stock Exchange, together with the arrangements for export credit. The Committee's terms of reference were:-
'To enquire into the role and functioning, at home and abroad, of financial institutions in the United Kingdom and their value to the economy; to review in particular the provision of funds for industry and trade; to consider what changes are required in the existing arrangements for the supervision of these institutions, including the possible extension of the public sector, and to make recommendations'.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The committee's report was published as Cmnd. 7937 on 26th June 1980.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3025/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: BS
Records of defunct temporary bodies
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Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (Wilson Committee): Evidence Files and Registered Files (FI Series)