Catalogue description HM Treasury: Public Finance (sector) and successors: Banking Services Division (BSE prefix): Registered Files

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Details of T 556
Reference: T 556
Title: HM Treasury: Public Finance (sector) and successors: Banking Services Division (BSE prefix): Registered Files
Description:

The records concern policy and implementation of the supervisory function of overseeing the operations and practices of banks and deposit taking institutions in the UK.
Date: 1991-2002
Arrangement:

Records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Related material:

See also:

T 520

T 555
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: BSE prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, 1667-

Treasury, Public Finance, 1984-1994
Physical description: 143 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2019 Treasury
Custodial history: The records were stored with Treasury to 1999 at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1. Thereafter the records were stored with a third party contractor prior to their transfer to The National Archives
Accumulation dates: 1992 to 1997
Selection and destruction information: RCP - S.3.1.1 - Government's management of the UK economy
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The records were created under the Public Finance (sector), Financial Institutions and Markets (group) and the specific creator in 1992 was the Banking division. In 1993, the names of the creator changed to the Banking and Mutuals Division under the same organisational structure. In 1994, Public Finance Sector was replaced by Industry and Financial Institutions (sector) and Financial Institutions and Markets (group) changed to the Banking (group). In 1996, Industry and Financial Institutions (sector) changed to the Finance Regulation and Industry Directorate and Banking (group) changed to Credit Institutions (group).

The origins of banking supervision prior to 1992 are to be found in Domestic Economy Sector, Home Finance Group, which had a Financial Institutions Division (1981).

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