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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1665
Aerospace (Future and structure of British Airways: settlement of litigation concerning the collapse of Laker Airways; airports policy; USA/UK future aviation strategy; economic regulation of airports; competition regime for UK/US aviation) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 387
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85 Dec 17 Tu Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 18 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“UK/US aviation: future strategy”) [how to make progress over anti-trust, post-Laker settlement] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mo Major Aerospace: Howard letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [requests amendment in relation to CAA powers] [declassified 2014]
85 May 22 We Major Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“UK/US Civil Aviation: Bermuda 2”) [“objectives and negotiating strategy”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 20 Fr Major Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 18 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BA pay”) [Chief Executive says he is “under exceptionally heavy pressure to open pay negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to Nick Ridley (BA pay proposals) [“an offer of 10% to BA engineers would seriously undermine attempts to moderate public pay sector increases”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 7 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Ken Clarke (BA pay proposals) [“BA will not have an easy ride in attempting to restructure the engineering grades”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“danger that we may be becoming too complacent about our alleged success in reducing public sector trading settlements”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 30 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BAA pay”) [“prospects of privatisations together with BAA’s increased profitability have raised expectations”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tu Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“I have stressed to BAA the need to keep their settlement as low as possible”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 30 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Airports Bill”) [pressure from backbenchers for compulsory privatisation] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [defence against separate privatisation of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 16 Th Major Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We Major Aerospace: Michael Spicer letter to Michael Howard (Airports Bill) [proposed amendments: “I am not attracted to your ideas”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 16 Th Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on airports policy”) [“encouraging enterprise and efficiency… [while recognising] continuing role of Government as regulator and referee”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Airports decisions and White Paper”) [statement to Parliament & Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 5 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Airports policy: Decision letters and White Paper) [Stansted and Heathrow planning applications] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to John Wakeham PS (“Debate on airports policy, Monday 17 June”) [text of the motion, early debate in the Lords] [declassified 2014]