Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Statistics Division, Overseas Information Unit and successors: Registered Files, International Statistics (IS Series)
Reference: | MAF 396 |
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Title: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Statistics Division, Overseas Information Unit and successors: Registered Files, International Statistics (IS Series) |
Description: |
This series contains files produced by the Overseas Information Unit of the Statistics Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and its successors dealing with international food supply and demand statistics and such matters as the balance of payments and the UK's entry into the EEC. Includes some papers re-registered from the FTE file series: MAF 333 |
Date: | 1959-1979 |
Arrangement: |
Former file reference within accession. |
Related material: |
Other statistics relating to international trade are in MAF 40 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | IS file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Overseas Information Unit, 1962-1971 |
Physical description: | 25 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 1999 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
Accruals: | Occasional accruals |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Overseas Information Unit was a part of the Statistics Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food dealing with overseas food production, supply and prices information, balance of payments questions and related matters. It became part of Statistics Division II when it was created in 1965, though the functions transferred to Division I before both divisions were renamed in 1986, when international statistics functions moved to the Statistics (Agricultural Commodities) Division. |
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