Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Investigation and Enforcement (ENF Series)

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Reference: MAF 321
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Investigation and Enforcement (ENF Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to the enforcement of food controls and rationing orders in wartime and during emergencies, including annual reports of the Enforcement Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Date: 1954-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ENF file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Food, Enforcement Division, 1950-1955
Physical description: 8 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Accumulation dates: 1939
Administrative / biographical background:

The Enforcement Division of the Ministry of Food was set up to police various food controls and rationing orders to prevent a black market in controlled food commodities. Food rationing ended in 1954 and in 1955 the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries merged. The role of the Enforcement Division changed as divisions in the new combined ministry dealing with subsidies needed help in investigating and prosecuting producers and others who were seeking to defraud them.

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