Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: General Agricultural Policy Division: Rehabilitation and Re-stocking Following the Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak (CN Series): Registered Files

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Details of MAF 426
Reference: MAF 426
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: General Agricultural Policy Division: Rehabilitation and Re-stocking Following the Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak (CN Series): Registered Files
Description:

These files contain policy papers on the compensation of farmers who lost stock during the 1967 foot and mouth disease outbreak. This includes measures to ensure equity of treatment following a sharp rise in stock prices which lead to farmers who received compensation at the beginning of the outbreak at a financial disadvantage.
Date: 1967-1969
Arrangement:

Files are in former departmental reference order.
Related material:

Other files relating to the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease can be found in MAF 287
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CN file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, General Agricultural Policy Division, 1969-1977
Physical description: 3 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2004 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Selection and destruction information: Selected under the TNA's Acquisition Policy section 2.2.1.2, management of the economy
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The CN file series was used by the General Agricultural Policy Division working on issues of rehabilitation and re-stocking following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 1967.

By 1976 this work had ceased and the file series was closed.

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