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It was the last Ministry of the United Kingdom government not to be a Department of State.

It was merged with the part of the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions that dealt with the environment ( and with a small part of the Home Office ) to create a new government department, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ) in 2001.

MAFF was formally dissolved on 27 March 2002, when the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Dissolution ) Order 2002 ( S. I.

2002 / 794 ) came into force.