Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions: Registered Files, Emergency Feeding (EMF Series)

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Reference: MAF 357
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions: Registered Files, Emergency Feeding (EMF Series)
Description:

Records of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food relating to provisions for emergency feeding outside London. Most selected files relate to the direction and financing of emergency feeding organisation under the Civil Defence (Emergency Feeding) Regulations 1951 and Civil Defence (Grant) Regulations 1953, but the series includes one file on emergency feeding during the Aberfan disaster. Some files relate to civic restaurants.

Date: 1943-1974
Related material:

Files dealing with emergency feeding in London are in the EML file series; see MAF 330

Separated material:

Earlier files in the EMF series are in MAF 99

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Defence, Emergencies and Crop Improvement Division, 1970-1974

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 II, 1955-1960

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Miscellaneous and Manufactured Foods and Emergency Services II, 1957-1957

Ministry of Food, Emergency Meals, 1943-1973

Physical description: 45 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1995 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1951 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Civil Defence (Emergency Feeding) Regulations 1951, made under the Civil Defence Act 1948, placed on the councils of counties and county boroughs of England and Wales responsibility for making plans to feed members of the civil population who, as a result of hostile action, are unable to feed themselves. The Civil Defence (Grant) Regulations 1953 provided that approved expenditure by these authorities should be repaid in full.

The Civic Restaurants Act 1947 enabled local authorities to operate restaurants, under the financial supervision of the Minister of Food. Responsibility for civic restaurant work was moved in 1970 to General Food Policy Division II (EB series).

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