Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: BSE Inquiry: Chief Veterinary Officers...
Catalogue reference: MAF 707
What's it about?
MAF 707
This series contains the records and papers which chart the activities of the Chief Veterinary Officer and his team throughout the course of the BSE emergency.
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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MAF 707
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: BSE Inquiry: Chief Veterinary Officers Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1987-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the records and papers which chart the activities of the Chief Veterinary Officer and his team throughout the course of the BSE emergency.
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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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Unregistered folders
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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)
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health and Veterinary Group, 1990-1996
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Chief Veterinary Officer's Group, 1996-2000
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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116 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2018 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1990 to 1996
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are anticipated
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Records selected under the Records Collection Policy (3.1.2 structures and decision-making processes in government, and 3.1.4 states interaction with the physical environment).
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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 BSE Inquiry was a massive undertaking. Lord Phillips and his team spent nearly three years examining what happened day by day during the ten years that led up to the announcement of 20 March 1996 that BSE had probably generated a new and fatal human disease. More than 1,200 people submitted written evidence to the Inquiry; there were 138 days of public oral evidence from 333 witnesses and the team looked at 3,000 files of contemporary official documents. Up until 2001 the full estimated cost of the Inquiry to the public purse was about £29 million. The final Inquiry report was expected to consist of a main volume of perhaps 100-200 pages (containing the key findings, criticisms and recommendations and 15 supporting volumes each of at least 100 pages, amounting to 4,000 pages in all)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15527204/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: BSE Inquiry: Chief Veterinary Officers Papers