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Department of the Environment: Local Authority Rate Support Grants, Registered Files...

Description and record details

Reference AT 53
Title Department of the Environment: Local Authority Rate Support Grants, Registered Files (FLG Series)
Date 1965-2002
Description

This series contains policy files relating to the payment of local authority rate support grants.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FLG series from the FLA series (AT 44) and the 90,000 series (HLG 89).

Arrangement

The files in this series will be transferred in more than one batch and arranged in previous reference order within each accession.

Related material

For earlier records on local government finance see: HLG 154

Separated material

In 1979 some files from the FLG series were transferred to the FLTG2 series, and at an unknown date some FLG files were re-registered to the FLA series.

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

English

Creator

Department of the Environment, Local Government Finance Policy Directorate, Local Authority Grants Division, 1974-1980

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2018

Physical description 141 file(s)
Access conditions Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1995 Department of the Environment

Accruals Series is accruing.
Selection and destruction information Files relating to routine estimates and payments have not been selected for preservation.
Administrative/ biographical background

Prior to 1972, in both the Department of the Environment (DOE) and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the rate support grant was the responsibility of the Local Government Finance Division and in particular of Branch FIN 1. From 1972 to 1974 the distribution and payment of the rate support grant was carried out by the Finance Local Authorities Division.

The Finance Local Authority Grants Division was then established within the Local Government Finance Policy Directorate of the DOE. It was responsible for the distribution and payment of the rate support grant and dealt with related policy matters until 1980 when the division was dissolved.

The function then passed to a newly-created, combined Local Taxation and Grants Division, which continued to use the FLG prefix, in addition to FLT and its own, new FLTG prefix. In 1985 a Finance Local Authority Grants Division was re-established. The FLG prefix ended in 1989 and some aspects were continued in the FLAG series.