Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Management Services Division 1 Registered Files (MCD Series)

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Reference: MAF 455
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Management Services Division 1 Registered Files (MCD Series)
Description:

This series contains the registered file series MCD and covers the administration services for Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) Headquarters, and the Management Board's agenda, minutes and papers.

Date: 1979-1981
Related material:

Other Establishment files relating to the administration services can be found in:

MAF 39

MAF 227

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Management Services Division, 1969-1979

Physical description: 5 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 opened in 1974
Selection and destruction information: These files were selected according to The National Archives Acquisition and Disposition Strategy 3.1.1
Accruals: This series is accruing
Publication note:

For further information on administrative background and related series, see Sir John Winnifrith, The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (New Whitehall Series, No 11, 1962) and Loaves and Fishes, an illustrated history of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1889-1989 by Susan Foreman HMSO Dd 290759 C60 3/89

Administrative / biographical background:

Establishment Division 1 was renamed the Management Services Division 1 in 1970 and covered the administration of the department's Headquarters, including the Management Board, the Research Laboratories, manpower control, pay, and organisation and methods.

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