Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Aid Department: Registered Files, Development, Aid and Finance Policy (AID Series)

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Reference: CO 1057
Title: Commonwealth Office: Aid Department: Registered Files, Development, Aid and Finance Policy (AID Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Aid Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with the provision of budgetary and financial aid to the dependent territories and development policy for the Commonwealth.

Date: 1966-1967
Related material:

Later Foreign and Commonwealth Office files are in FCO 59

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AID file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Aid Department, 1966-1967

Physical description: 5 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Aid Department was formed after the creation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966, assuming the functions of the Colonial Office Finance Department for matters of budgetary aid and general financial questions relating to the dependent territories, as well as dealing with questions of general development policy for the Commonwealth. From October 1968, these matters were handled in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by the Financial Policy and Aid Department.

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