Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Series

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Divisions: Registered Files:...

Catalogue reference: MAF 294

What's it about?

MAF 294

This series contains files of the Fatstock Marketing Division and its successors dealing with the administration of the fatstock guarantee scheme and policy questions affecting fatstock.Subjects include animal certification marks, grading...

Full description and record details

Reference

MAF 294

Title
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Divisions: Registered Files: Fatstock (FGS Series)
Date

1950-1985

Description

This series contains files of the Fatstock Marketing Division and its successors dealing with the administration of the fatstock guarantee scheme and policy questions affecting fatstock.

Subjects include animal certification marks, grading standards, unsatisfactory markets, grade and deadweight, the decontrol and new arrangements of meat and livestock, the setting up and running of the fatstock guarantee scheme. Also included are liaison with the agricultural departments, the NFU and other trade and professional bodies. Some minutes of meetings of the Fatstock Marketing Division's Standing Committee, 1954-1957, are also included.

The series includes some files, from before 1955, re-registered from Ministry of Food file series.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

FGS file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Division, 1969-1971
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Guarantees Division, 1965-1969
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Marketing Division, 1955-1965
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Policy Division, 1965-1969
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sheep and Livestock Subsidies Division, 1973-1997
Physical description

288 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1991 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates

1955 to 1985

Accruals

Series is accruing

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10694/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

184,561 records

Within the department: MAF

Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...

You are currently looking at the series: MAF 294

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fatstock Divisions: Registered Files: Fatstock (FGS Series)