Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions: Registered Files, Food Supply Defence Planning (DEF, DEF(M), and Z Series)

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Reference: MAF 250
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions: Registered Files, Food Supply Defence Planning (DEF, DEF(M), and Z Series)
Description:

This series contains files dealing with all aspects of defence and emergency planning from the following registered file series:

Z Files: These contain papers dealing with wartime agricultural defence planning, including minutes of meetings of heads of divisions to discuss the organisation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the supply and distribution of animal feeding stuffs. Some papers date back to 1938.

DEF/M Files: These record plans for the provision of safe storage space and a stockpile of food for use after a nuclear attack.

DEF Files: These contain papers concerned with plans for the monitoring and distribution of food in all emergency circumstances.

Date: 1931-1989
Related material:

Earlier papers concerned with defence and emergency planning are in MAF 99

For related records of the Scientific Advisor see MAF 291

Separated material:

Some papers from the Z file series were re-registered into the NE file series; see MAF 298

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Emergency Services and Defence Division, 1964-1970

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Emergency Services Division, 1960-1964

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Emergency Services Division I, 1955-1960

Physical description: 332 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1983 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accruals: Series is accruing

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