Catalogue description Records of the Finance Department

Details of Division within LAB
Reference: Division within LAB
Title: Records of the Finance Department
Description:

Records relating to the financial administration of the Ministry, including accounting and audit questions.

Registered files of the Finance Department are in LAB 9
Date: 1912-1977
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Employment and Productivity, Finance Division, 1968-1970

Department of Employment, Finance Department, 1970-1973

Ministry of Labour and National Service, Finance Department, 1939-1959

Ministry of Labour, Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement Department, Finance Branch, 1918-1919

Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1919-1939

Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1959-1968
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Originally the Finance Branch of the Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement Department, the Finance Department became a separate division in January 1919, headed by the Accountant General. The Department was concerned with all sides of the ministry's work dealing with financial, accounting and audit questions; it played an important role both in determining policy priorities and in the organisation of the ministry as a whole. It was involved in monitoring the normal running costs of the ministry and its local offices, as well as being responsible for costing various schemes run by the ministry. In the inter-war years, for instance, it had to oversee the finances of the unemployment fund, and estimate the cost of transitional payments. It also supervised the work of regional finance offices

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