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

User icon Taylor Kenkel
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.


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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 15 December 1939 English

129 MINISTRY OF FOOD GREAT WESTMINISTER HOUSE, HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON, S.W.1. SECRET REPORT NO. 5. Copy No. STATISTICS DIVISION WEEKLY REPORT ON SUPPLIES OF CERTAIN FOOD AND FEEDING-STUFFS. 12th December, …


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 …