Catalogue description Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency (Halsbury Committee): Minutes, Papers and Reports

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Reference: T 174
Title: Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency (Halsbury Committee): Minutes, Papers and Reports
Description:

Agenda, minutes, papers and report of the (Halsbury) Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency .
Date: 1962-1963
Related material:

For files of the Third Finance Home (2 FH(3)) Division, set up in 1966 to deal with the introduction of decimalisation, see T 315
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency, 1962-1963
Physical description: 13 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee of Inquiry on Decimal Currency was appointed in December, 1961, with the following terms of reference:

  • To advise on the most convenient and practical form which a decimal currency might take, including the major and minor units to be adopted.
  • To advise on the timing and placing of the changeover best calculated to minimise the cost.
  • To estimate the probable amount and incidence of the cost to the economy of the proposals based on the above terms of reference.

Previous committees etc. on decimalisation were:

  • The Select Committee on Decimal Coinage, 1853; records not known to survive
  • The Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage, 1857
  • The Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage, 1918; records not known to survive

Reports, Minutes etc. of this committee and these commissions were published as Parliamentary Papers.

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