Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: General Agricultural Policy Division:...
Catalogue reference: MAF 426
What's it about?
MAF 426
These files contain policy papers on the compensation of farmers who lost stock during the 1967 foot and mouth disease outbreak. This includes measures to ensure equity of treatment following a sharp rise in stock prices which lead to farmers who...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 426
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: General Agricultural Policy Division: Rehabilitation and Re-stocking Following the Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak (CN Series): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1967-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files contain policy papers on the compensation of farmers who lost stock during the 1967 foot and mouth disease outbreak. This includes measures to ensure equity of treatment following a sharp rise in stock prices which lead to farmers who received compensation at the beginning of the outbreak at a financial disadvantage.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Files are in former departmental reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other files relating to the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease can be found in MAF 287
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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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CN 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)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, General Agricultural Policy Division, 1969-1977
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 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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from 2004 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under the TNA's Acquisition Policy section 2.2.1.2, management of the economy
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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 CN file series was used by the General Agricultural Policy Division working on issues of rehabilitation and re-stocking following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 1967.
By 1976 this work had ceased and the file series was closed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15997/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: General Agricultural Policy Division: Rehabilitation and Re-stocking Following the Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak (CN Series): Registered Files