Catalogue description HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group: Aid and Overseas Services Division: Records (GOA series)

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Details of T 436
Reference: T 436
Title: HM Treasury: Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group: Aid and Overseas Services Division: Records (GOA series)
Description:

These records concern general policy on aid to, and financial relations with, developing countries; Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure, including overseas development administration. Typical areas of work covered are as follows: Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure; aid/trade provisions; international trade and commodities; overseas aid; Crown Agents; Commonwealth Development Corporation; territorial responsibilities for Africa, Mediterranean, Middle East, Atlantic Territories, Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean, non-Communist South and South East Asia, the Far East and Pacific.

'GOA' file series prefix denotes the function 'General Overseas Aid'.

Date: 1981-1987
Arrangement:

The files are arranged chronologically in file reference order.
Related material:

See also T 317
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GOA
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Overseas Finance Sector, Aid and Export Finance Group, 1975-1984
Physical description: 231 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2013 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1981 to 1997
Selection and destruction information: Acquisition Policy themes: 3.1.1 - Management of government revenues and expenditure; 3.1.4 - Regulation and support of Economic Activity by Government.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The General Aid Division was created in 1981 under the Aid and Export Finance Group and thereunder the Overseas Finance Sector of HM Treasury. The Aid and Export Finance Group fleetingly had two other divisions: the Export Finance Division and the Oil and Overseas Services Division. However, by 1984 this had reduced to a single Aid and Overseas Services Division (AEF1). The Group seems to have lasted at least until 1997.

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