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 · 18 December 1939 English
4. The representatives of the fanners took the view that the prices fixed in the November 11th schedule must now be regarded as out of date in the light of …
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 · 29 January 1940 English
(###IS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT). SECRET. ###P.(O)(39) COPY NO. 1.A. WAR CABINET. HOME POLICY COMMITTEE. OFFICIAL SUB-COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. Composition. The Permanent Under Secretary …
The National Archives · 29 December 1939 English
164 MINISTRY OF FOOD, GREAT WESTMINSTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON, S.W.1. S###CRET. REPORT NO. 7. 123 Copy No. STATISTICS DIVISION. WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING-STUFFS. 28th …
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 …
The National Archives · 2 December 1939 English
102 understand, it should give as much latitude to farmers as possible so that it can be applied to the different circumstances and systems of hundreds of thousands of farms, …
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 · 1 November 1939 English
43 3. The present objective is the ploughing up of at least 1,500,000 acres of grassland for cropping in 1940. When this objective was decided upon in 1937 it was …
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 …