Catalogue description Home Office: Expenditure, Works and Priorities (EMW Symbol Series) Files

Files from the Home Office EMW (Expenditure, Works and Priorities) series, relating to the reviewing of investment programmes and control of building works.

Whilst concerned mainly with civil defence, the EMW series was not confined to that subject; it included all Home Office capital investment programmes. The series was raised to handle the Treasury co-ordinated gradual transition from controlled wartime to post-war conditions.