Catalogue description Records of the Spending Directorate

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Reference: Division within T
Title: Records of the Spending Directorate
Description:

Records of the Spending Directorate of HM Treasury.

The records comprise expenditure policy discussions on social services and territorial; local government; management policy and running costs.

Spending Group, Territorial Branch: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Team FilesT 508.

Spending: Agriculture: registered files (ASP prefix series)T 602.

Spending Directorate, Housing Urban and Environment: registered files (HUR prefix series) T 603.
Date: 1988; 1995-1998
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Spending Directorate, 1995-1998
Physical description: 3 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Treasury
Custodial history: Records stored by HM Treasury at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1, to April 2012. Thereafter stored by a third party contractor prior to transfer to The National Archives.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Spending Directorate was created in 1995 and was the main successor to the previous Public Services business unit which it replaced. It comprised the following departments / business units: Aid, Diplomacy and Intelligence; Defence; Agriculture; Social Security; Health; Local Government; Employment and Training; Home and Legal; and Central Operational Research and Economics.

By 1998, the Spending Directorate was disbanded and replaced by the Public Services Directorate.

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