Catalogue description Records of Finance and Local Government Divisions
Reference: | Division within AT |
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Title: | Records of Finance and Local Government Divisions |
Description: |
Records relating to the creating bodies' responsibilities for local government finance. Registered files:
Records of the Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance (Layfield Committee), AT 10 |
Date: | 1938-2002 |
Related material: |
Department of the Environment: Finance, Housing and General Division: Registered Files (FHG Series): AT 45 |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 11 series |
Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1971, the Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate was first established after the financial divisions, inherited by the newly created Department of the Environment, had been reorganised into more efficient units. A range of issues relating to local government finance were dealt with by the divisions which made up the directorate. In 1974 the directorate was abolished after a reorganisation of the bodies dealing with local government financial affairs. Two new directorates were created:
The finance organisation underwent a number of changes following the establishment of the Department of the Environment in 1970. In 1974 a committee (the Layfield Committee) was appointed to inquire specifically into local government finance and its report was published in 1976. As a result, in the same year, the two Local Government Finance Directorates established in 1974 were dissolved and replaced with a single Local Government Finance Policy Directorate. |
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