Catalogue description Treasury: Economic Assessment Division: Registered Files (2EA series)

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Reference: T 338
Title: Treasury: Economic Assessment Division: Registered Files (2EA series)
Description:

Registered files of the Economic Assessment Division. They comprise medium and short-term assessments of the interactions of various government policies, planning assumptions, public expenditure, private investment and personal consumption. The assessments tried to show what might be implied for the economy generally by the level of expenditure on which programmes were being planned.
Date: 1966-1975
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 2EA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Economic Assessment Division, 1970-1975
Physical description: 365 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1970-1975
Selection and destruction information: Many of these files are likely to be selected, given research use of the files of the division's predecessor - the Economic Section.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1970 the National Economy Group was re-created in the Treasury. At the same time the Economic Section ceased to exist as a unit of organisation and most of its economists allocated to positions in one or other of the divisions of the National Economy Group.

The Economic Assessment Division was one of these. It was headed by the Chief Economic Adviser, who was also Head of the Government Economic Service, a post previously held by the head of the Economic Section. It took over from the Economic Section the function of giving advice to Treasury Divisions concerned with public expenditure. Economic Assessment undertook medium term assessment using economic modelling, and employing a computer systems consultant. In the 1975 Treasury re-organisation a Chief Economic Adviser's Sector took over this work.

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