Records of Supply divisions

Division within T

1821-1986

This group contains files of the Treasury divisions engaged on work relating to supply (supervision and control of expenditure by government departments).

Files for the period 1920-1948 are in T 161.

After the decentralisation of the Treasury Registry in 1948 each mixed division had a separate file series. These are listed below with the date of creation of the division if after the reorganisation of 1938. Some files of earlier dates will be found in these series as a result of the practice of re-registering.

• Defence Policy and Materiél (DM): T 225.
• Defence Personnel (DP): T 213.
• Government and Allied Services (GS): T 219.
• Imperial and Foreign (IF): T 220.
• Law and Order (LO): T 221.
• Social Services (SS): T 227.
• Trade and Industry (TI): T 228.
• Lands and Buildings Division (LB) (1944): T 226.
• Agriculture and Food Division (AF) (1946): T 223.
• Agriculture, Trade and Transport (AT) (1958): T 224.
• Arts, Science and Lands (AS) (1958): T 218.
• Commonwealth and Foreign Division (CF) (1960): T 296.
• Public Enterprises (2PE) (1962): T 319.
• Science and Technology (2ST) (1967): T 334.
• Environment and Public Purchasing (2EP) (1970): T 341.

Division dealing with general issue of public expenditure and receipts from 1960 including Public Expenditure Surveys and Programme Analysis and Review are Public Income/ Outlay (T 320) and General Expenditure (T 331). Blue Notes are mainly in T 165 with some copies in T 321 and T 160.

Treasury Officers of Accounts, Estimates Clerk: Registered Files (2EST Series), T 232

Cash Limits and Cash Control: Registered Files (CLCC prefix), T 654.

Public Record(s)

• Treasury, Civil Public Sector Group, 1962-1973
• Treasury, Establishments and Organisation Branch, 1968-1975
• Treasury, Establishments and Organisation Group, 1975-1984
• Treasury, General Expenditure Policy Group, 1975-1995
• Treasury, Public Sector Group A, 1973-1974
• Treasury, Public Services Sector, 1975-1983
• Treasury, Revenue Department, 1782-1919
• Treasury, Supply Department, 1919-1962

23 file(s)

Topics

Art, architecture and design

Government finances

Trade and commerce

Inflation

Food and drink

Farming

In the Treasury reorganisation of 1919 the work of each department was organised into 5 numbered divisions, with the supply and establishment work relating to individual government departments being kept separate. The supply divisions (3D to 7D) were each responsible for supply questions relating to a number of specific government departments. One of these, however, was abolished in 1921, its responsibilities being transferred, and by 1927 there were three supply divisions: 3D (Social Services and Transport), 4D (Trade and Agriculture) and 5D (Defence, and Foreign and Imperial matters).

Following the report of the Treasury Organisation Committee in 1937 (see T 199/50C), from April 1938 there was some amalgamation of supply and establishment work with the creation of mixed divisions relating to functional areas of governmental activity, which were thereafter known by name instead of number and letter.

In the reorganisation of 1962 work relating to the control of expenditure was entrusted to the Public Sector Group.