Catalogue description Civil Service Department: Management (Personnel) Branch 5: Home and Overseas Allowances (HOA/MP(5) Series) Files
Reference: | BA 20 |
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Title: | Civil Service Department: Management (Personnel) Branch 5: Home and Overseas Allowances (HOA/MP(5) Series) Files |
Description: |
Files relating to departments', ministers', MPs', armed forces, civil servants and diplomatic service allowances, expenses, and other non-pay emoluments, including questions of their liability to income tax, compensation for the effects of devaluation of the pound, etc. There are correspondence and papers created in the Treasury and pre-dating the constitution of the Civil Service Department from, for example, the 2/CP, 2/DOP, 2/DP, and 2/EG Treasury series, but the papers were brought together in 1968 within the Civil Service Department branch registry and incorporated in the HOA/MP(5) series. |
Date: | 1908-1980 |
Related material: |
Earlier Treasury files on public sector allowances are in: |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | HOA/MP(5) file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Cabinet Office, 1916- Civil Service Department, Management (Personnel) Branch 5, 1968-1972 Civil Service Department, Personnel Management Group, 1973-1981 Management and Personnel Office, 1981-1982 Treasury, 1667- |
Physical description: | 90 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2001 Cabinet Office |
Custodial history: | HM Treasury until 1968, then Civil Service Department until 1981; then Management and Personnel Office until transferred to the Cabinet Office in the same year. |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Responsibility for allowances, expenses, etc. was transferred from the Treasury to the Civil Service Department on the latter's constitution in 1968. |
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