• The Exchequer Standards may refer to the set of official English standards for weights and measures created by Queen Elizabeth I (English units), and in...
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    In the civil service of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Exchequer, or just the Exchequer, is the accounting process of central government and the government's...
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    The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the...
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    imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights...
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  • used from 1495 to 1587, as affirmed by King Henry VII, and the Exchequer Standards, in use from 1588 to 1825, as defined by Queen Elizabeth I. In England...
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    gold standard. By fixing the price at a level which restored the pre-war exchange rate of US$4.86 per pound sterling, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill...
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    The Exchequer of Pleas, or Court of Exchequer, was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common...
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    to keep the king's standard measure (Mensura Domini Regis) and weight at the Exchequer, which thereafter verified local standards until its abolition...
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  • national standards of England, as well as the physical standards (prototypes) associated with these systems of units a set of avoirdupois weight standards dating...
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    marketplace are quantified according to accepted units and standards in order to avoid fraud. The standards themselves are legally defined so as to facilitate...
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  • Kingdom were kept at the Exchequer, and the duties relating to these standards were imposed upon the chamberlains of the Exchequer. The office of chamberlains...
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    of Samantha Cameron, who took over from the former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who became editor-in-chief.[citation needed] As editor...
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  • The Comptroller General of the Exchequer was a position in the Exchequer of HM Treasury between 1834 and 1866. The Comptroller General had responsibility...
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    HM Treasury (redirect from UK Exchequer)
    infrastructure, and economic growth. It is led by the chancellor of the exchequer, currently Rachel Reeves since 5 July 2024. The Treasury's main offices...
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    Winston Churchill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 and served until 1929. He presented five budgets during his chancellorship. He was...
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    made in 1314 to the Auditor of the Exchequer. In 1559 an office was set up, with responsibility for auditing Exchequer payments, called the Auditors of...
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  • superseded various pieces of apartheid-era legislation subsidiary to the Exchequer Act, 1975. In particular, the new public finance management framework...
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    Lord Randolph Churchill (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    Churchill became Secretary of State for India, and later Chancellor of the Exchequer. As Chancellor, he attracted both admiration and criticism across the...
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    Rachel Reeves (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    February 1979) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of...
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    The Scottish Exchequer is a group of Directorates of the Scottish Government. The Exchequer was formed in December 2010 with a re-organisation of the Scottish...
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    compared against. These had previously been the responsibility of the Exchequer. Section 14 of the act repealed 5 enactments, listed in the schedule to...
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    Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    promise of a socialist utopia. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. He broke...
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    taper rate, in order to take the low paid out of taxation altogether. The Exchequer argued that tax credits were robbing taxpayers by subsidising low pay...
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    George Osborne (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    retired politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and as First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016 in...
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    to the new standards. Between 1845 and 1855 forty yard standards were constructed, one of which was selected as the new Imperial standard. Four others...
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    to 2021 in the first and second Johnson ministries. He also served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2018 to 2019 in the second May ministry...
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    George Osborne served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from May 2010 to July 2016 in the David Cameron–Nick Clegg coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat...
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    Kwasi Kwarteng (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    May 1975) is a British politician who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from September to October 2022 under Liz Truss and the Secretary of State...
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  • document prepared by Stafford H. Northcote (later to be Chancellor of the Exchequer) and C.E. Trevelyan (then Permanent Secretary at the Treasury) about the...
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  • Osborne, then the chancellor of the Exchequer to pay off the remaining loan. In 1927, the chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill issued 4% consols...
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