Series: Papers 1(40) - 69(40)

User icon Taylor Kenkel
26 August 2022
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A file of memoranda from the War Cabinet's Food Policy Committee. Subjects covered in the documents include the status of stocks of key food items including meat, dairy, cereals, sugar, and tea; supplies of animal feed, including concerns over rising prices and distribution issues; and the ploughing-up campaign, which is aimed at turning more land over to agricultural use. Further topics covered include the work of the Ministry of Supply's Salvage Department to tackle waste in the food industry; proposals to introduce rationing for servicemen; and a decision to limit the production of whisky and other spirits due to a shortage of cereals. The documents also cover concerns over the shortage of agricultural labour; and suggestions for various civilian and military schemes to be introduced to address the issue. Suggested sources of agricultural labour include the Women's Land Army, schoolboys, gang labour, the industrial unemployed, refugees, prisoners of war, and conscientious objectors.


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The National Archives · 22 February 1940

dispatched and to find their way to the farmer through the usual distributive channels. (3) Bristol was late. Supplies landed at Bristol have been short, particularly as Bristol had over …


The National Archives · 18 January 1940 English

SECRET. MINISTRY OF FOOD. Great Westminster House, Horseferry Road, London, S.W.1. STATISTICS DIVISION REPORT NO. 9. Copy No. 125 WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING STUFFS. 16th …


The National Archives · 19 March 1940 English

DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMAL FEEDINGSTUFFS. INTERIM NOTE BY THE MINISTRY OF FOOD. 1. At the meeting of the Ministerial Sub-Committee on Food Policy on 26th February it was decided: (e) To …


The National Archives · 20 March 1940 English

MINISTRY OF FOOD, GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON, S.W.1. SECRET REPORT No. 18 STATISTICS AND INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING-STUFFS. 19th March, 1940. …


The National Archives · 22 February 1940 English

dispatched and to find their way to the farmer through the usual distributive channels. (3) Bristol was late. Supplies landed at Bristol have been short, particularly as Bristol had over …


The National Archives · 9 April 1940 English

MINISTRY OF FOOD, GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON, S.W.1. SECRET REPORT No. 21. Copy No. 128 STATISTICS AND INTELLIGENCE DIVISION WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING-STUFFS …


The National Archives · 14 February 1940 English

1,219 228 480 1,927 86% SECRET REPORT NO. 13. Copy No. 130 STATISTICS DIVISION. WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING STUFFS. Week Ended - 1939/40 6th Jan. …


The National Archives · 28 February 1940 English

MINISTRY OF FOOD, GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, SECRET STATISTICS LONDON, S.W.1. DIVISION. REPORT NO. 15. Copy No. 130 WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING-STUFFS. 27th February, …


The National Archives · 20 March 1940 English

most expensive imports of their kind which enter the U.K. Bacon is being subsidised directly by the Treasury and indirectly by Empire producers. Danish butter is sold by the Ministry …


The National Archives · 5 January 1940 English

MINISTRY OF FOOD GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, S.W.1. STATISTICS DIVISION. SECRET Monthly Statement No. 2 Copy No. 30 The attached statement of the statistical position of the principal foodstuffs …