Series
Treasury: Agriculture and Food Division: Registered Files (AF Series)
Catalogue reference: T 223
What's it about?
T 223
Files of the Agriculture and Food (AF) Division. Among the subjects covered are: Agricultural Research Council, forestry (except Home Grown Timber Production Department), Ordnance Survey, Development Commission, agriculture producer prices,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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T 223
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Agriculture and Food Division: Registered Files (AF Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1920-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Agriculture and Food (AF) Division. Among the subjects covered are: Agricultural Research Council, forestry (except Home Grown Timber Production Department), Ordnance Survey, Development Commission, agriculture producer prices, supply questions on fisheries, food policy including overseas food procurement and imports, food subsidies, price stabilisation and wages policy, and remuneration of food manufacturers and distributors.
Also includes files of the S (T 161) series, which were reregistered in the AF series in 1948.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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AF file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Treasury, Agriculture and Food Division, 1946-1958
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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421 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1976 Treasury
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1948 to 1958
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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 Agriculture and Food (AF) Division was set up in 1946. In 1958 AF Division was amalgamated with the Trade and Industry (TI) Division, after the latter had transferred some of its functions to Home and Overseas Planning Staff (HOPS) Division. The new Division was called the Agriculture, Trade and Transport (AT) Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13960/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: T
Records created or inherited by HM Treasury
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Treasury: Agriculture and Food Division: Registered Files (AF Series)