Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Divisions: Registered Files: Fatstock (FGS Series)

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Reference: MAF 294
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Divisions: Registered Files: Fatstock (FGS Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Fatstock Marketing Division and its successors dealing with the administration of the fatstock guarantee scheme and policy questions affecting fatstock.

Subjects include animal certification marks, grading standards, unsatisfactory markets, grade and deadweight, the decontrol and new arrangements of meat and livestock, the setting up and running of the fatstock guarantee scheme. Also included are liaison with the agricultural departments, the NFU and other trade and professional bodies. Some minutes of meetings of the Fatstock Marketing Division's Standing Committee, 1954-1957, are also included.

The series includes some files, from before 1955, re-registered from Ministry of Food file series.

Date: 1950-1985
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FGS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Division, 1969-1971

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Guarantees Division, 1965-1969

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Marketing Division, 1955-1965

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Policy Division, 1965-1969

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sheep and Livestock Subsidies Division, 1973-1997

Physical description: 288 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1991 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1955 to 1985
Accruals: Series is accruing

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