Catalogue description Treasury: Public Income/Outlay Division: Registered Files (2PI0 and 2PIO.EST Series)

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Reference: T 320
Title: Treasury: Public Income/Outlay Division: Registered Files (2PI0 and 2PIO.EST Series)
Description:

Registered files in the 2PIO and 2PIO.EST series of the Public Income/Outlay Division of HM Treasury concerning public expenditure and receipts. Includes files concerning the public expenditure factor in the National Economic Development Council's 4% growth rate outline model of the UK economy, EEC plans for harmonisation of taxation, papers of the Official Enquiry into Value Added Tax (VAT), public civil investment, and papers of the Prime Minister's Steering Committee on Modernising Great Britain, and the Public Expenditure Survey of 1962. Also included are some set copies of Blue Notes for the early 1960's. Some pre-1962 papers are included in some of the 2PIO files.

These papers were re-registered from the 2NR and 2HF prefixes, used by the NR (National Resources) (T 298) and HF (Home Finance) (T 233) divisions of the Treasury.
Date: 1955-1975
Arrangement:

The files are arranged in former reference order within each accession. They are being transferred in more than one batch. Papers are filed in date order, with the latest date at the back of the file.

These papers were re-registered from the 2NR (T 298) and 2HF (T 233) prefixes used by NR (National Resources) and HF (Home Finance) divisions of the Treasury. Following the 1967 change, 2PIO files ceased to be raised and subsequent records were registered in the 2GE series.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 2PIO file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Public Income/Outlay Division, 1962-1967
Physical description: 706 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1998 Treasury
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Public Income/Outlay Division was established in November 1962. Its two main responsibilities were:

  • to provide the apparatus for enabling the Government to take major public expenditure decisions in the light of regular surveys of public expenditure as a whole, over a period of years ahead, and in relation to prospective resources-the central recommendation of the Committee of Enquiry on the Control of Public Expenditure (Plowden Committee);
  • to provide the pattern of public expenditure and public receipts to enable the Government to use its spending power and taxing power in the manner that contributed most effectively to the development of the nation's economy both in terms of long-term growth and to foster short-term stability.

The Public Income/Outlay Division was initially responsible for the following subjects:

  • Public Expenditure
  • Public Expenditure Survey Committee
  • Treasury Public Expenditure Committee
  • Compilation of total public expenditure
  • General questions on: Parliamentary supply matters, Consolidated Fund and Appropriation Bills, Financial Resolutions, Civil Contingencies etc, General Estimates Committee matters
  • Estimates, Revised and Supplementary
  • Estimates, general arrangements
  • Estimates, Civil Classes I to XI and related blue notes
  • Secretary Budget Committee
  • Taxation issues and related matters
  • Secretariat: committees and working parties to study taxation policy
  • Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise questions
  • Secretary Advisory Panel (which administered s468 of the Income Tax Act 1952 dealing with Migration of Companies)
  • Income Tax Act 1952 (Migration of Companies)
  • Import duties
  • Motor vehicle licences
  • Supply expenditure of: Customs and Excise, Inland Revenue

It was also responsible for providing advice on:

  • the reform of the estimates and Exchequer Accounts;
  • the development of forward long term and short term estimates and accounts for the Public Sector and the relationship of both to the national income and expenditure and statistics;
  • the development of statistical techniques for the control of public expenditure;
  • the use of monetary statistics for policy purposes

The PIO carried out its work through the following departmental and inter-departmental organisations:

  • the Budget Committee
  • the Treasury Budget Expenditure Committee
  • the Long-Term Taxation Working Party

In September 1967 it was re-named General Expenditure (GE) Division.

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