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Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Local...

Catalogue reference: HLG 154

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HLG 154

These records of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment's Local Government Finance Division and successor document the administration of local government finance. They include internal minutes and memoranda...

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Reference

HLG 154

Title
Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Local Government Finance Division and Successor: Registered Files (FIN Series)
Date

1939-1977

Description

These records of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment's Local Government Finance Division and successor document the administration of local government finance. They include internal minutes and memoranda and correspondence.

Arrangement

The records are arranged in original file reference order within each transfer.

Related material

For further records on local government finance see: AT 30 AT 37 AT 47 AT 53

Separated material

Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see

AT 44

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

FIN file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of the Environment, Finance Divisions, 1970-1976
  • Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Division and Local Government Finance Division, 1951-1970
  • Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
Physical description

236 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2002 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Subjects
Topics
Government finances
Custodial history

Transferred from the Department of the Environment to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997

Accumulation dates

Series ran from 1951 to 1974

Accruals

Series is accruing

Selection and destruction information

Records have been selected for permanent preservation according to the principles set out in the Department of the Environment OSP, Housing, Section 4.1. These include files on the following topics; policy on the introduction and administration of rent rebates and the rate support grant, and the implications of selective employment tax (SET). Records relating to routine casework and public correspondence have not been preserved. A maximum of 35m of records dating up to 1974 remain to be appraised. The proportion which will justify permanent preservation is unknown.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8849/

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