Catalogue description Ministry of Fuel and Power and Successor: Valuation and Compensation Division: Coal Industry Nationalisation Papers

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Details of POWE 35
Reference: POWE 35
Title: Ministry of Fuel and Power and Successor: Valuation and Compensation Division: Coal Industry Nationalisation Papers
Description:

The papers in this series contain details of capital outlay refunds, interim incomes, terms of settlement assets, subsidiary and coal industry valuations, payment of costs, and partial satisfaction of compensation in the case of thirty-two representative collieries. Also in the series are various summaries of valuations and of compensation paid, mainly by districts.

Date: 1946-1969
Related material:

For records of the Coal Division see Division within POWE

Committee reports and other related papers are in POWE 28

For papers containing the statements of interest, solicitors' correspondence, compensation units and severance claims of thirty two representative private collieries see POWE 36

For related finance files see POWE 39

Records of the Central Valuation Board are in POWE 42

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Central Valuation Board, 1946-1949

Physical description: 250 files and volumes
Restrictions on use: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Central Valuation Board, convened under Sections 10(4) and 12(3) of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, recommended on 1 February 1949 the apportionment of compensation to be awarded to the various valuation districts on the nationalisation of the industry.

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