Catalogue description Welsh Office: Agriculture Department and Successors: Animal Health and Fisheries (AHL) File Prefix: Registered Files

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Reference: BD 134
Title: Welsh Office: Agriculture Department and Successors: Animal Health and Fisheries (AHL) File Prefix: Registered Files
Description:

The records concern policy implementation pertaining to animal, livestock and fisheries health and welfare.
Date: 1980-1994
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AHL
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Welsh
Creator:

Welsh Office, Agriculture Department, 1978-1999
Physical description: 54 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2018 Welsh Government
Custodial history: The records were originally created and stored by the Welsh Office. The National Assembly for Wales (Executive) took over custody from 1998 and the records stored in Neptune Point, Cardiff. The Welsh Assembly Government took over custody in 2007 and the records were stored with a third party contractor. In 2011 the Welsh Government took over custody of the records.
Accumulation dates: 1981 to 1994
Selection and destruction information: Records Collection Policy, s.3.1.1 records which detail changes in the strategic functions and obligations of the UK and English and Welsh governments. OSP7, s5.2 covers the selection of records relating to agriculture in Wales.
Accruals: No further accruals expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Animal Health Division was responsible for animal and livestock health and welfare; livestock improvement; meat hygiene including hygiene standards and slaughter houses; matters relating to the veterinary profession and veterinary medicines; land drainage grants; pesticides; emergencies and Welsh fisheries. The records were created by the Animal Health, Land Drainage and Fisheries Division which was a component of the Agriculture Department.

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