Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Housing Associations, Revenue Division; Registered Files (HACR series)

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Reference: AT 140
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Housing Associations, Revenue Division; Registered Files (HACR series)
Description:

The records within this series relate mainly to control of housing associations' financial arrangements and the transfer of local authority housing to housing association ownership or management.
Date: 1989-1996
Related material:

Earlier files on the subject (H prefix) are in HLG 118
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HACR series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Communities and Local Government, 2006-2018

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002

Department of the Environment, Housing Associations, Revenue Division, 1989-1993

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001

Department of Transport, 1976-1997

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-2006
Physical description: 7 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2018 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Department of Transport 1989 to 1996; Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006; Department for Communities and Local Government 2006.
Accumulation dates: 1989 to 1993
Selection and destruction information: Files showing policy development have been recommended for selection
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Housing Associations, Revenue Division (HACR) was set up in 1989 as part of a large scale re-organisation of housing work in the Department which saw the progressive demise of the longstanding and comprehensive H prefix (HLG 118).

The responsibilities of the Division were sponsorship of the Housing Corporation and revenue aspects of housing association finance (including revenue deficit grant, hostel deficit grant and treatment of rent surpluses).

In 1990 the role of the Division changed significantly as it focused on housing association management questions and 'Tenants Choice' under Part IV of the Housing Act 1988, with the finance responsibilities being transferred to the HACC Division which became a purely finance division.

In 1993 HACR was absorbed into HMEA (Housing Management, Estates Action) a division dealing with 'Tenants Choice' more broadly than its effect on housing associations.

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