Series: Official Sub-Committee. Meetings 1(39) - 5(39) Papers 1(39) - 18(39)
Taylor Kenkel
A file of meeting minutes and memoranda concerning the deliberations of the Official Sub-Committee on Food Policy. Subjects covered include the stocks and supplies of essential foodstuffs such as wheat, sugar, oil seeds, meat, and dairy produce; the proposed introduction of meat rationing; and concerns over falling supplies of sugar. Further topics covered include plans to increase the amount of agricultural land for food production; the introduction of price controls on livestock; and the impact of food pricing policies on wages and the cost of living. The file also covers the status of sheep farming and the wool industry in Scotland; and the wartime brewing and distilling industries, with discussions on taxation revenue, social impact, exports, employment, and the impact of the redirection of barley and maize stocks for use as animal feed.
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The National Archives · 30 November 1939
71 The Sheep Position in Scotland. Memo by the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. 1. Comparing 1938 with ten years ago the sheep population has on the whole varied little …
The National Archives · 4 December 1939
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON FOOD PRICES C.F.P. 1. Memorandum on Food Price Policy in relation to Wages and the Cost of Living 1. Retail food prices, as measured by the Ministry …
The National Archives · 18 December 1939 English
154 increase in home production is to be secured, a higher level of prices will be necessary for agricultural products generally." It is quite clear in the Ministry's opinion that …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
and for manufacture, is 48,000 tons per week. MINISTRY OF FOOD, GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD. LONDON, S.W.1. INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. STATEMENT ON SUGAR EXHAUSTION TABLE. The total …
The National Archives · 9 December 1939 English
125 ###S DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT). ECRET. WAR CABINET. HOME POLICY COMMITTEE. OFFICIAL SUB-COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. STATISTICAL POSITION OF THE PRINCIPAL FOODSTUFFS IN DECEMBER …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
39 The greater part of the home crop of oats, amounting to about two million tons, still remains on the farms and, owing to bad threshing weather and the ###ct …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
1. The decision taken last October by the War Cabinet not to ration meat was to some extent based upon the statistical position as then known. From estimates of home …
The National Archives · 4 December 1939 English
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON FOOD PRICES C.F.P. 1. Memorandum on Food Price Policy in relation to Wages and the Cost of Living 1. Retail food prices, as measured by the Ministry …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
35 It seems incredible that the consumption of sugar, if it has increased at all, should have increased by anything like 19%. It must therefore be assumed that the bulk, …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
11 FOOD POLICY. 1. SIR HORACE WILSON informed the Committee that PREPARATION OF MEMORANDA FOR THE it appeared desirable to consider at the Meeting MINISTERIAL SUB- COMMITTEE OF THE the …