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Commonwealth Office: Aid Department: Registered Files, Development, Aid and Finance...
Description and record details
| Reference | CO 1057 |
|---|---|
| Title | Commonwealth Office: Aid Department: Registered Files, Development, Aid and Finance Policy (AID Series) |
| Date | 1966-1967 |
| 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. |
| 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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