Series: Official Sub-Committee. Meetings 1(39) - 5(39) Papers 1(39) - 18(39)

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26 August 2022
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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.


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

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 · 18 December 1939 English

151 5. There has been a good deal of adverse criticism during the present war against the "pooled" article which frequently accompanies the institution of control. In the meat scheme …


The National Archives · 1 December 1939 English

113 The experience of the past month has brought out clearly the danger of looking only at the total stock of wheat in the country, including the home crop, and …


The National Archives · 5 December 1939 English

19 (Paper No. F.P.(O)(39) 9). FOOD PRODUCTION POLICY. THE COMITTTMEE had before them a Memorandum by the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries on Home Food Production Policy SIR DONALD FERGUSSON …


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 · 2 December 1939 English

16 ###EREALS POSITION. THE SUB-COMMITTEE had before it a Memorandum ###.P. (0)(39) ###oncl. 5. ###st Mtg. (F.P. (0)(39) 10) by the Ministry of Food on Supplies of Wheat and other …


The National Archives · 28 November 1939 English

5 FOOD POLICY. SIR HORACE WILSON explained to the meeting that the APPOINTMENT Home Policy Committee at their meeting on the 27th OF SUB- COMMITTEE OF HOME POLICY November, 1939 …


The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English

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 …