Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Local Authority Finance (FLA Series) Files

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Details of AT 44
Reference: AT 44
Title: Department of the Environment: Local Authority Finance (FLA Series) Files
Description:

This series comprises registered files concerning local authority finance.

The files relate to the supervision of local government capital funds, rate support grant policy, and legislation on local government finance. Material on the Greater London rate equalisation scheme is also included.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FLA series from the FIN series (HLG 154) and the 90,000 series (HLG 89).
Date: 1956-2000
Arrangement:

Files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
Separated material:

For files re-registered into the FLG series, see AT 53
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FLA 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, Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate, Local Authority Division, 1971-1974

Department of the Environment, Local Government Finance Policy Directorate, Local Authority Division, 1974-1983
Physical description: 558 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1996 Department of the Environment
Selection and destruction information: Routine case work files have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Until the creation of the Department of the Environment (DOE), functions concerning local authority finance had been carried out by the Local Government Finance Division (Branch FIN 1) of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

In 1971, the Finance, Local Authority Division of the DOE was established, and was responsible for the supervision of local government capital funds and control of capital expenditure, rate support grant policy and legislation on local government finance until 1975.

From 1974 to 1983 responsibility rested with the Local Authority Division of the Local Government Finance Policy Directorate, and from 1983 to 1988 by the Local Authority and Rates Division and Rates Legislation Division of the same directorate. From 1989 onwards the functions were exercised by the Local Authority Capital Finance Division of the Directorate.

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