Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series)
Reference: | FCO 48 |
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Title: | Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series) |
Description: |
This series consists of registered files of the Commonwealth Office Aid Department (January to June 1967) and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department (June 1967 to October 1968) relating to financial and development policy. |
Date: | 1967-1968 |
Arrangement: |
Former file reference |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | FP file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Aid Department, 1966-1967 Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, 1967-1968 |
Physical description: | 205 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Accumulation dates: | 1967-1968 |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Commonwealth Office's Aid Department, and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, dealt with financial policy and aid, and development policy in the Commonwealth. The department was abolished upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in October 1968, at which point responsibility for Commonwealth aid and development policy passed to a new Financial Policy and Aid Department in the FCO. |
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