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Series
War Cabinet: Food Policy Committees: Minutes and Papers (FP and SFC Series)
Catalogue reference: CAB 74
What's it about?
CAB 74
This series consists of minutes and papers of the Food Policy Committees and sub-committees.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 74
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet: Food Policy Committees: Minutes and Papers (FP and SFC Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1943
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes and papers of the Food Policy Committees and sub-committees.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Subject and chronological
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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)
- FP and SFC file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Cabinet, Food Policy Committee, 1939-1942
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1970 Cabinet Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Food and drink
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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 Food Policy Committee was formed in October 1939, initially (until April 1940) as a ministerial sub-committee on food policy of the Home Policy Committee. The ministerial committee was chaired by Sir Samuel Hoare and thereafter (from May 1940) by Clement Attlee, both in their positions as Lord Privy Seal. This was paralleled by an official committee chaired by Sir Horace J Wilson (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury).
The ministerial committee initially dealt with the administrative arrangements for rationing, but wider questions of subsidies and shipping resources were involved, and there was a good degree of overlap with the Economic Policy Committee.
The official committee lapsed in May 1940, with the ministerial committee continuing until April 1942 when the Lord President became chairman. Thereafter, the work of the Food Policy Committee was absorbed into the Lord President's Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3881/
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