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Potato Marketing Board: Executive Committee: Minutes, Reports and Papers
Catalogue reference: FY 2
What's it about?
FY 2
Minutes, reports and papers of the Executive Committee, a statutory committee of the Potato Marketing Board considering all major aspects of the running of the Potato Marketing Scheme. The series also contains minutes and papers of the Executive...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FY 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Potato Marketing Board: Executive Committee: Minutes, Reports and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, reports and papers of the Executive Committee, a statutory committee of the Potato Marketing Board considering all major aspects of the running of the Potato Marketing Scheme. The series also contains minutes and papers of the Executive Committee and Industry Group.
'Reports' are reports of the Committee to the Board; 'papers' are papers considered by the Committee.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Reports and papers prior to 1955 are believed to be no longer extant.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
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- Potato Marketing Board, Executive Committee, 1934-1939
- Potato Marketing Board, Executive Committee, 1955-1955
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 139 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 20 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2000 British Potato Council
in 1993 Potato Marketing Board
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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
- Trade and commerce
- Farming
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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 Executive Committee is constituted by the Board under the Potato Marketing Schemes. It consists of seven Board members, of whom at least one is a Ministerial appointee.
The Board delegates to this Committee such authority as it sees fit, and expects the Executive Committee to consider all major aspects of the running of the Scheme, and to make recommendations to it for implementation.
The Committee was suspended during 1940-1954.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8548/
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