Series
Ministry of Food: Nationalisation of Food Industries: Unregistered Papers
Catalogue reference: MAF 281
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MAF 281
This series contains papers, mainly of senior ministry officials, concerning the preparation, in 1949 to 1951, of proposals for nationalisation of certain parts of the food industry. The papers include submissions to the Ministry of Food from the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 281
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Food: Nationalisation of Food Industries: Unregistered Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers, mainly of senior ministry officials, concerning the preparation, in 1949 to 1951, of proposals for nationalisation of certain parts of the food industry. The papers include submissions to the Ministry of Food from the industries concerned expressing their opposition to the proposals. The papers were not placed on registered files at the time of their creation, for reasons of security.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Papers are arranged in numerical order under file prefixes allocated to papers dealing with each of the food trades covered.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 65 file(s)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The work on proposals to nationalise parts of the food industry was undertaken after the publication in April 1949 of the policy document Labour believes in Britain, which included the intention of taking the sugar industry and the meat trade and cold storage industry into public ownership. The change of government in 1951 brought about a reversal of the outgoing government's plans for nationalisation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10681/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
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Ministry of Food: Nationalisation of Food Industries: Unregistered Papers