Catalogue description Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)

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Reference: T 337
Title: Paymaster General: Free Trade Area Office: Private Office Files (FTA file series)
Description:

Private office files of the Free Trade Area Office.

Date: 1956-1959
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FTA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Paymaster General, Free Trade Area Office, 1957-1959

Physical description: 56 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2002 Cabinet Office

Custodial history: Transferred to the Treasury in 1959 and then to the Cabinet Office in 1997.
Accumulation dates: 1957 to 1959
Accruals: No further accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

By his personal minute dated 26 July 1957 the Prime Minister appointed the Paymaster General to be the minister supervising the development of the UK's European free trade area policy. The Free Trade Area Office was staffed by secondees from the Treasury.

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