Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Chief Scientist's Group (Research and Development Requirements Division): Registered Files (CSA Series)
Reference: | MAF 438 |
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Title: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Chief Scientist's Group (Research and Development Requirements Division): Registered Files (CSA Series) |
Description: |
This series contains registered files (CSA series) of the Chief Scientist's Group, Research and Development Requirements Division. The files comprise papers on policy, finance, and deliberations leading to the commissioning or rejection of a research project and the original signed minutes of releveant board and committee meetings. They cover the creation of the Priorities Board and the Board's recommendations. |
Date: | 1979-1992 |
Related material: |
Registered files of the research grants are in: MAF 117 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | CSA |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Research and Development Requirements Division, 1973-1991 |
Physical description: | 68 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Custodial history: | The records were held by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) until 2001, when the department was renamed as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). |
Accumulation dates: | Series was opened in 1973 |
Selection and destruction information: | These files were selected according to The National Archives Acquisition Policy 2.2.1.2 |
Accruals: | This series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1973 the chief scientific advisers were given departmental responsibility for their scientific staff when a separate Chief Scientist's Staff Group was established, consisting of the Food Science Division, and a new Research and Development Requirements Division. The latter was responsible for the co-ordination and execution of the ministry's research and development programme. The Group consisted of senior scientists, with technical assistants, together with an administrative division, which jointly aided the Chief Scientist in his responsibility for formulating policy and allocating research and development resources in agriculture, fisheries and food. The Group was responsible for the commissioning of research and development with 'contracting' organisations both inside and outside the ministry, and for conducting reviews of the work so funded. The contractors included universities at which MAFF sponsored studentships, and also commissioned special research projects. |
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