Catalogue description Treasury: Accounts Branch: Registered Files (A/CS C Series)

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Reference: T 276
Title: Treasury: Accounts Branch: Registered Files (A/CS C Series)
Description:

Files of the Accounts Branch of the Treasury. The files concern the Treasury's accounting responsibilities and Exchequer control over receipts and issues. They cover such subjects as civil list, the Exchequer Equalisation Account, the Royal Naval Prize Fund, and financial dealings with other countries.

Also includes files of the F series which were reregistered as part of the A/CS C series in 1948.

Most of the files are from the period 1950 to 1970

Date: 1915-1979
Arrangement:

Arrangement is by former reference number

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: A/CS C file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Accounts Branch, 1870-

Physical description: 195 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1987 Treasury

Accumulation dates: 1948
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Accounts Branch was set up in 1870. In the period 1948 to 1986 it was divided into two sections, the Exchequer Section and the Grants Section, although the sections were later amalgamated. The Exchequer Section controlled, recorded and accounted for all receipts into, and issues from, the Exchequer (i.e. the Consolidated Fund, National Loans Fund, and certain other central accounts).

The Grants Section carried out the accounting duties connected with all votes for which the Treasury was the responsible Accounting Department, although this work was later transferred to the Establishment and Organisation (EOG3) Division 3 - Finance Division. In amalgamated form, the Accounts Branch still deals with the Grant Section's work on claims for Parliamentary and European Assembly election expenses, policy work on these expenses, and on accidents (e.g. in polling booths ); the latter role was taken over from Social Services (SS) Division in the mid-1970s.

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