Series: Papers Nos. 1(42) - 105(42)

User icon Taylor Kenkel
25 August 2022
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A file of memoranda, graphs, and statistical data concerning the workings of the Lord President's Committee on domestic affairs during the Second World War. The documents discuss the committee's attempts to save key resources through rationing, with items such as tobacco, tea, and alcohol targeted by the committee to be rationed; and the committee's attempts to cut down on public largesse, including its decision that meals served in restaurants should not consist of more than three courses. The documents also cover the payment of pensions to British ex-servicemen; the committee's attempts to increase the supply of doctors and dentists for the British Armed Forces; and the committee's concern that the British coal mining industry is in need of a larger workforce, as the upcoming winter is set to put severe pressure on Britain's coal reserves. Other documents include a series of graphs outlining recent developments in Britain's industrial productivity.


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The National Archives · 14 February 1942 English

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. January Movements and Classes. £'000 Food, drink and tobacco 35,367 43,733 23,132 Raw materials and articles mainly unmanufactured 21,613 18,00 Articles wholly or mainly manufactured 44,522 28,300 …


The National Archives · 3 April 1942 English

hand, to try to direct and control the Companies, without changing the present financial arrangements, would cause confusion, obstruction, and even non-cooperate 8, It is also vital that any new …


The National Archives · 7 April 1942 English

-2- electricity undertakings showed a fall of 330,000 to 2,451,900 tons (4.8 weeks' supply). Industrial stocks fell by over 450,000 tons, engineering and other metals falling to 5.4 and other …


The National Archives · 14 April 1942 English

-2- I. Subject to consultation with mine-owners and miners, rationing will apply to coal supplied to mine-owners and to miners for domestic consumption as to others, subject to allowance of …


The National Archives · 3 March 1942 English

have to be dealt with, and the general justification being that a high proportion of the holders of Basic Rations are likely to be using them to eke out the …


The National Archives · 25 February 1942 English

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT. SECRET. L.P. (42) 49. COPY NO. 25th February, 1942. WAR CABINET. LORD PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE. LABOUR SUPPLY FOR MALTING 1941/1942 SEASON. …


The National Archives · 17 January 1942 English

It is, indeed, not too much to say that the main war-time domestic policy of the Government is to-day dependent on what happens in the sphere of wage-rates, on the …


The National Archives · 22 April 1942 English

TO KEY. requested ensure IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) MOST SECRET COPY 22ND STOCKS OF FOOD AND ANIMAL FEEDING STUFFS, RAW AND This report gives the figures of …


The National Archives · 21 April 1942 English

now merely civil offences but were acts definitely our war effort. I have reason to believe that an arrangement will be made under which all Allies (including the U.S.A.) agree …


The National Archives · 24 March 1942 English

districts in England and Scotland became State Management district; in which some of the powers previously exercised by the Control Control Board were vested in the Home Secretary and the …