Records of the Finance Department

Division within LAB

1912-1977

Records relating to the financial administration of the Ministry, including accounting and audit questions.

Registered files of the Finance Department are in LAB 9

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Employment and Productivity, Finance Division, 1968-1970
• Department of Employment, Finance Department, 1970-1973
• Ministry of Labour and National Service, Finance Department, 1939-1959
• Ministry of Labour, Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement Department, Finance Branch, 1918-1919
• Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1919-1939
• Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1959-1968

1 series

Originally the Finance Branch of the Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement Department, the Finance Department became a separate division in January 1919, headed by the Accountant General. The Department was concerned with all sides of the ministry's work dealing with financial, accounting and audit questions; it played an important role both in determining policy priorities and in the organisation of the ministry as a whole. It was involved in monitoring the normal running costs of the ministry and its local offices, as well as being responsible for costing various schemes run by the ministry. In the inter-war years, for instance, it had to oversee the finances of the unemployment fund, and estimate the cost of transitional payments. It also supervised the work of regional finance offices