Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Statistics Division, Overseas Information Unit and successors: Registered Files, International Statistics (IS Series)

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Details of MAF 396
Reference: MAF 396
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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