Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series)

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Reference: FCO 48
Title: Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Commonwealth Office Aid Department (January to June 1967) and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department (June 1967 to October 1968) relating to financial and development policy.

Date: 1967-1968
Arrangement:

Former file reference

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FP file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Aid Department, 1966-1967

Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, 1967-1968

Physical description: 205 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accumulation dates: 1967-1968
Administrative / biographical background:

The Commonwealth Office's Aid Department, and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, dealt with financial policy and aid, and development policy in the Commonwealth. The department was abolished upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in October 1968, at which point responsibility for Commonwealth aid and development policy passed to a new Financial Policy and Aid Department in the FCO.

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