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Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Local Government Superannuation (LGS...

Description and record details

Reference AT 40
Title Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Local Government Superannuation (LGS Series) Files
Date 1938-1989
Description

This series comprises registered files relating to local government superannuation and the remuneration of board members of public bodies in transport, housing and local government. The files contain actuarial reports, appeals, admissions to schemes and papers relating to the supervision of schemes.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the LGS series, in particular from the AG3 (HLG 151), LG (HLG 120) and 90,000 (HLG 89) series.

Arrangement

Files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department LGS file series. This is one of several series which used five digit primary numbers; these numbers originated in the Ministry of Health file registration system.
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Department of the Environment, Public Sector Superannuation and Top Salaries Division, 1973-1976

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Common Services, Public Sector Superannuation and Top Salaries Division, 1977-1989

Physical description 92 file(s)
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates 1973
Accruals Series is accruing
Selection and destruction information Files dealing with routine casework have been destroyed.
Administrative/ biographical background

Local government superannuation was originally dealt with in the Ministry of Health. It is not clear which division in the ministry exercised these functions but in 1951 the work was transferred to the Local Government Organisation and Finance, Public Health and Sanitary Division of the Ministry of Local Government and Planning. The Public Health and Sanitary Division of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government was responsible for these functions from 1952 until 1955, followed by the Local Government Division (probably B) from 1955 until the late 1960s. The Accountant General's Department (which became part of the Department of the Environment (DOE) on its creation in 1970) took over responsibility from the late 1960s until 1971.

Within the DOE, the Public Sector Superannuation and Top Salaries Division dealt with this subject from 1973 to 1989.

In 1976, following the creation of a new and separate Department of Transport, the Public Sector Superannuation and Top Salaries Division was one of the groups which provided a common service to both departments until 1989 when the system of common services was abolished. From 1989 Local Government Division 3 of the DOE dealt with local government bodies in transport, housing and local government.