Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Parliamentary Business, Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 53
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Parliamentary Business, Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series includes unregistered files and volumes relating to the parliamentary business of the Board of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. These include reports of deputations to the minister; reports (to the minister) of departmental proceedings; agricultural policy papers; bill papers; minister's speeches; sealed orders; etc.

The series also contains a large number of registered files of the PPB series and some files re-registered from the TLY file series (MAF 121), LOY file series (MAF 139) and WAC file series (MAF 143) .

Date: 1890-1975
Arrangement:

Records were accessioned in the following batches of pieces:

1-117 Mainly volumes, arranged chronologically (1890-1947)

118-263 Mainly folders, arranged chronologically (1921-1953)

264-302 PPB files, in file number order

303-305 Folders

306-393 PPB files, in file number order

Related material:

For records relating to press and publicity see MAF 216

Separated material:

Later files in the PPB series are in MAF 375

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PPB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 393 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1945

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