Catalogue description HM Treasury: Financial Management and the 'Next Steps' Programme: Registered Files (FMNS prefix)

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Reference: T 644
Title: HM Treasury: Financial Management and the 'Next Steps' Programme: Registered Files (FMNS prefix)
Description:

These records cover the financial management standards and requirements for the new Next Steps agencies that HM Treasury had an interest to monitor and control.
Date: 1986-1993
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in chronological and file prefix order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FMNS prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, 1667-
Physical description: 252 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Treasury
Custodial history: The records were held by HM Treasury at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1, until 2011 whereupon they were stored with a third party contractor for disposal and preparation for transfer to The National Archives.
Accumulation dates: 1987 to 1993
Selection and destruction information: Records Collection Policy s 3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments - records that illustrate the governments role in the management of the UK economy.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The FM 1 Division (part of Financial Management Group, Financial Management, Public Services sector) created the records from 1987 to 1988. The FMNS prefix then passed over to Financial Management Division (part of Management Policy and Running Costs Group, Public Services sector) in 1989. From 1990 to 1993, the Public Services sector was retitled the Civil Service Management and Pay sector. The FMNS prefix was terminated in 1993.

Next Steps:

The Next Steps initiative is seen as one of the two or three key reform moments in the development of the Civil Service. It was a direct consequence of the 'lasting reforms' agenda of Sir Derek (later Lord) Rayner (Margaret Thatcher's efficiency adviser) in the early 1980s. For good or ill it fundamentally changed the shape and mindset of the Civil Service, not just within the agencies it created, but across the remainder of Whitehall. Subsequent reforms (Bringing In and Bringing On Talent, Public Service Agreements and the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, and Capability Reviews) drew explicitly and heavily on the lessons from this approach to change in the Civil Service, and they could not have happened without it.

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