Catalogue description Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Authority Administration and Finance, Registered Files

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Reference: HLG 53
Title: Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Authority Administration and Finance, Registered Files
Description:

This series comprises files of correspondence and papers relating to local authority administration and finance.
Date: 1914-1966
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of Health, Accountant General's Department, 1919-1968

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Division A, 1956-1970

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Division B, 1956-1970

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Finance Division, 1951-1970

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Organisation Division, 1951-1956

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967

Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951

Ministry of Local Government and Planning, Local Government Organisation Division, 1951-1951

Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951

Ministry of Works, 1943-1962

Ministry of Works and Buildings, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, 1942-1943
Physical description: 300 file(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

Local authorities index with series list

Administrative / biographical background:

The Ministry of Health Act 1919 established the Ministry of Health and from July 1919 it assumed the powers and duties of the Local Government Board. In January 1951 the Ministry of Local Government and Planning was formed by the merger of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and the local government and environmental health divisions of the Ministry of Health. The title of this department was changed to Ministry of Housing and Local Government in November 1951.

From May 1940 the Welsh Office took over responsibility for a number of functions carried out by local authorities in Wales.

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