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FOOD SITUATION OF THE U.K. Monthly Report submitted to Food Policy Committee by Minister of Food for November, 1940, incorporating report on home production for the same period prepared by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in conjunction with S/S Scotland and S/S Home Home Department.

30 Dec 1940

SUPPLIES IMPORT PROGRAMME ANIMAL PROTEIN FOODS Supplies available for civilian consumption are reflecting the low rate of arrivals over recent months, and increased restrictions have been found necessary. The main reasons for this are (a) a reduced loadings programme, due to restricted shipping facilities (b) an actual rate of arrival below that programme, due not only to delays and sinkings, but to a failure to implement the loadings programme: (c) serious transport difficulties within this country The import programme for the second year of war was originally settled at 18.
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Civil Defence Region
Nationwide Region 5: London
Collection ID
CAB74
Document Reference
CAB 74/4/111
Document Types
Report Statistical Publication Table/chart/graph
File Reference
CAB 74/4
Former Department Reference
FP(M)(40) 178
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.cab74.000004.111
Keywords
Agricultural Equipment Agriculture Air Raids Air-raid Shelters Alcohol Alcoholic Spirits Animal Feed Apples Bacon Baking Bananas Barley Beef Beer Bomb Damage Bread Brewing British Restaurants Butter Cakes Canning Cattle Cereals Cheese Civil Consumption Cocoa Coffee Communal Feeding Dairy Decontamination Depots Disease Distilling Education Eggs Emergency Procedures Exports Factories Farmers Fats Finance Fish Flour Food Preparation Food Supplies Foot-and-mouth Disease Freight Shipping Fruit Harvests Imports Industrial Workers Industry Infrastructure Labour Supply Livestock Maize Malting Margarine Material Supplies Meals Meat Milk Milling Miners Motor Vehicles Nutrition Nuts Offal Oil Oil Seeds Oranges Overseas Trade Pork Potatoes Poultry Preserves Prices Propaganda Prosecution Public Health Rationing Refineries Refrigeration Requisitioning Reserve Stocks Retail Rice Roads Schools Shipping Losses Storage Sugar Sultanas Surplus Tea Transportation Turkeys Unemployment Unrationed Foods Vegetable Oil Vegetables Voluntary Organisations Water Supply Weather Whale Oil Wholesale Yeast
Language
English
Locations Discussed
Birmingham Bristol China Clyde Cornwall Coventry Eire Folkestone Glasgow Greece Japan Kingston upon Hull Leith Liverpool London Manchester Morocco New Zealand South Africa Southampton Spain Turkey United States of America West Bromwich
Organizations Discussed
Agricultural Executive Committees British Army British Medical Association Civil Defence Service Committee on Economic Policy Co-operative associations Food Policy Committee Home Office Local Councils Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry of Food National Domestic Poultry Keepers' Council Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes Public Assistance Authorities Scottish Office Women's Land Army Women's Voluntary Service
Pages
28
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
Papers 70(40) - 182(40)
Themes
Rationing Supply Agriculture Food Supply Eating Cooking

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