Catalogue description HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Home Finance Group, Financial Institutions Division: Registered Files (MFC prefix)

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Details of T 521
Reference: T 521
Title: HM Treasury: Domestic Economy Sector, Home Finance Group, Financial Institutions Division: Registered Files (MFC prefix)
Description:

The records concern policy and its implementation on regulating banks and other financial and city and deposit-taking institutions. Some of these records concern the Wilson Committee on Financial Institutions.

The prefix 'MFC' denotes the registry theme 'Miscellaneous Financial Institutions and City Matters'.
Date: 1981-1982
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Related material:

See also T 443
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MFC prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Domestic Economy Sector, Home Finance Group, 1975-1981
Physical description: 90 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2014 Treasury
Accumulation dates: 1981 to 1982
Selection and destruction information: RCP, s.3.1.1 - records that illustrate the government's role in the management of the UK economy.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Financial Services Division was created in 1981 and succeeded the Financial Institutions and Savings Division which had both existed under the Domestic Economy Sector, Home Finance Group.

Its remit was the coordination of policy with regard to: the Bank of England; prudential supervision of banks and deposit taking institutions; work with the Trustee Savings Banks, National Giro and other financial institutions; policy on building societies and other financial institutions.

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