Catalogue description Records of the Public Finance [Sector] and Successors

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Title: Records of the Public Finance [Sector] and Successors
Description:

Records of the Public Finance Sector and successors.

Records may concern any of the following activities: general taxation policy; direct taxation; coordination of tax issues relating to the annual Budget and Finance Bills; indirect taxation; Consolidated Fund; National Loans Fund; Civil List; judicial salaries and pensions; Parliamentary and European Elections expenses; Bank of England and the prudential supervision of banks and deposit taking institutions; Trustee Savings Bank; National Girobank; European Community banking legislation; consumer credit; building societies; Registry of Friendly Societies; city matters including investor protection; insurance companies; pension funds; Stock Exchange; government lending arrangements; Royal Mint and coinage; local authority borrowing; National Savings; formulation of monetary policy; monetary control techniques; government debt sales; domestic financial markets; analysis and reporting developments; monitoring and forecasting public sector accounts; briefing on Public Sector Borrowing Requirements (PSBR); international comparisons of government public sector accounts.

Public Finance, Home Finance Group, Public Sector Finances Division records (PFF prefix) T 546.

Public Finance (Sector) and successors: Banking and Consumer Credit (BNK prefix) registered files T 555.

Public Finance (sector) and successors: Banking Services Division (BSE prefix) registered Files T 556

Public Finances and successors: Mutual and Financial Institutions (MFI prefix) registered files T 564.

Fiscal Policy: Central Co-ordination of Tax and other Policy (CCTP file prefix) registered files T 565.

Public Finance, Financial Insitutions and Markets: Securities and City Division (FIM 2) registered files (FME prefix) T 572.

Public Finance, Home Finance Group, Public Loans Division; Records (PCLB prefix) T 573.

Public Finance, Financial Institutions and Markets: Securities and City Division and General Financial Issues Division registered files (SCD prefix), T 575.

Public Finance: Financial Institutions and Markets, Banking Group and successors records (CMB prefix) T 582.

Public Finance: Securities and Investment Services: SIS3 and successors: registered files (FSCIS prefix: Financial Services Collective Investment Schemes) T 605.

Public Finances, Securities and Investment Services, SIS 1 and Successors registered files, LSE Prefix (London Stock Exchange) T 607.

Fiscal Policy Division and successors: Inland Revenue (IR file prefix) registered files T 612.

Financial Institutions and Markets and successors: General Financial Institutions Division (GFID prefix) T 616.

Public Finance and successors: Settlement Issues Including Dematerialisation (SID prefix) T 618.

Public Finance: Monetary Group and successors: Records (NSNL prefix) T 619.

Budget and Public Finances Monitoring: Registered Files (BMPF prefix) T 653.
Date: 1981-1997
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, Public Finance, 1984-1994
Physical description: 15 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Treasury
Custodial history: The records were created and held by the Treasury until 1999. Thereafter, the records were stored with a third party contractor prior to their transfer to The National Archives.
Administrative / biographical background:

Public Finance [sector] was created in 1984 and was formerly apart of Counter Inflation and Public Finance. The functions of the new Public Finance [sector] originated in the Domestic Economy Sector and its successor (the Domestic Economy Command) which existed from 1981 to 1984.

Public Finance [sector] comprised the following organisational structure:

  • Fiscal Policy Group comprising the following Divisions: Direct Tax Division; Indirect Tax Division.
  • Home Finance Group comprising the following Divisions: Accounts Division; Financial Institutions Division; Public Loans Division; Monetary Policy Division; Public Sector Finances Division.

Public Finance continued to 1994 when it its functions were redistributed to two new sectors: Fiscal and Monetary Policy [sector] and Industry and Financial Institutions [sector] and their respective sub-divisions.

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