Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Finance, Environmental Services Division: Registered Files (FES Series)

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Details of AT 37
Reference: AT 37
Title: Department of the Environment: Finance, Environmental Services Division: Registered Files (FES Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Finance, Environmental Services Division of the Department of the Environment.

The files relate to Exchequer grants, including financial assistance to local authorities; coast protection grants; grants and various claims for compensation arising under the Town and Country Planning Acts 1954 and 1962; and grants relating to public open spaces under the Local Government Act 1966.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FES series from the FLGD (AT 30), AGD (HLG 151), and 98507 (HLG 52 and HLG 71) series.
Date: 1955-1985
Arrangement:

The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
Related material:

For further records on local government finance see: HLG 154
Separated material:

For files re-registered into the FHG series, see: AT 45
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FES file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Finance, Environmental Services Division, 1974-1994
Physical description: 58 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1995 Department of the Environment
Accumulation dates: 1974
Selection and destruction information: Major policy files have been selected for preservation, while casework files dealing with payment of grants to various local authorities have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Finance, Environmental Services Division was established in 1974. It was responsible for financial control of votes for public service transport, public health and avoidance of pollution, miscellaneous environmental services, and rate support grants.

Between 1972 and 1974 these functions had been carried out by the Department's Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate. Prior to 1972 this was the responsibility of the Accountant General's Department of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of Economic Affairs.

By 1977, the Finance, Environmental Services Division also had responsibility for residual work of the Land Commission, and the following year for water authority borrowing and financial policy. By 1983, the division additionally had financial responsibilities for local environmental services, local planning services, urban programmes, urban development corporations and new towns, and by 1985 for ancient monuments and historic buildings.

In 1994, the division merged with the Finance Sponsored Bodies and Agencies Division to form the Finance, Environmental and Sponsored Bodies Division.

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