Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Accountant General's Department and successors: Registered Files (AG Series)

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Details of HLG 151
Reference: HLG 151
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Accountant General's Department and successors: Registered Files (AG Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Accountants General's Department in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Department of the Environment and the Public Sector Superannuation and Top Salaries Division of the Department of the Environment. The files relate to local government superannuation, staff compensation, housing grants and the payment of grant aid to local authorities in exceptional circumstances. Some files relate to specific local authorities.
Date: 1948-1975
Separated material:

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

AT 37

AT 40

AT 30
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AG file series. This is one of several series which used five digit primary numbers; these numbers originated in the Ministry of Health file registration system.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Accountant General's Department, 1951-1970

Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
Physical description: 32 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Accountant General's Department (AGD) was formed as part of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, in the early 1950s.It consisted of three divisions: AGD1 was responsible for salaries and allowances, and for parliamentary estimates; AGD2 for housing grants and subsidies; and AGD3 for new towns finance, grants for derelict land and historic buildings, and superannuation and compensation of local government employees.

In 1970, the department became part of the new Department of the Environment. In 1972 AGD and LGR (Local Government) divisions merged to become the Finance (Local Government and the Development) Directorate (FLGD).

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