Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak 1967-68: Registered Files (CQ File Series)

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Reference: MAF 471
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak 1967-68: Registered Files (CQ File Series)
Description:

The series contains the evidence submitted to the Committee of Inquiry into the 1967/68 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak including notes, agendas and minutes of meetings.

Date: 1967-1969
Separated material:

See also Subseries within MAF 287

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CQ file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division I, 1965-1987

Physical description: 34 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2018 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Accumulation dates: 1968-1969
Accruals: No further accruals are expected
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1967 the Minister of Agriculture announced his intention to set up an independent committee of inquiry to examine both policy and arrangements for dealing with Foot and Mouth and to advise whether changes were necessary. The Committee received both written and oral evidence with a final report detailing the Committee’s recommendations being published in 1969.

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