Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Establishment Departments: Registered Files, Establishments, General (EG Series)

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Reference: MAF 227
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Establishment Departments: Registered Files, Establishments, General (EG Series)
Description:

The series deals with general establishment policy and organisation matters. Subjects covered include: committees and commissions associated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); Departmental Whitley Councils; honours and awards; the Wilson Committee on provincial and local organisation and procedures of MAFF; Crichel Down Inquiry; grant and subsidy schemes; County Agricultural Executive Committees (CAECs); the history of MAFF; promotion procedures; tribunals and inquiries; field officers' duties; the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service; milk administration etc. Some pieces contain maps, plans or photographs.

Some early EG files contain pre-1949 papers annexed from other series, especially the SE series: MAF 39

Date: 1916-1981
Arrangement:

Arranged in former reference order with these accessions: MAF/1-34, 35-38, 39-299, 300-335, 336-355, and 356-360. Unregistered papers are listed after the EG files in an accession.

Related material:

For other papers relating to Crichel Down see

CRES 44

MAF 236

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EG file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 382 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1979 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1949 onwards

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