1981 Dec 7 - 1986 Oct 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1778
Government Machinery (Departmental responsibility for national standards and international trade)
Document type: | File list item |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
Classification: | Confidential |
Page count: | 215 |
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Selections from this file
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Date | Value | Title |
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82 Apr 22 Th | Major | Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (afternoon) (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield) [“National Standards and Departmental Responsibility”] [declassified 2014] |
81 Dec 22 Tu | Major | Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Biffen) [“National Standards and International Trade”] [declassified 2014] |
81 Dec 10 Th | Major | Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“National Standards and International Trade”) [Departmental demarcation hindering progress] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jul 26 Mo | Major | Government Machinery: Walker letter to Lord Cockfield (standards & regulatory bodies for food and agriculture) [draft White Paper] [declassified 2014] |
86 Oct 22 We | Minor | Government Machinery: Channon letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Quality Counts”) [improving competitiveness of British industry and commerce] [declassified 2014] |
83 Apr 19 Tu | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“National Quality Campaign”) [request for message of support to help launch campaign to strengthen British industrial competitiveness] [declassified 2014] |
83 Apr 18 Mo | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“Standards, Quality and International Trade”) [implementation of White Paper proposals] [declassified 2014] |
82 Nov 18 Th | Minor | Government Machinery: Heseltine minute to MT (standards, quality and international competitiveness) [“what is now needed is a reinforced and well-aided programme to help British industry”] [declassified 2014] |
82 Oct 19 Tu | Minor | Government Machinery: Treasury record of conversation (“Standards: meeting EDC/SWP Chairmen on 19 October”) [Lawson, Heseltine, Lamont, EDC/SWP Chairmen] [declassified 2014] |
82 Nov 8 Mo | Minor | Government Machinery: Jenkin minute to MT (“Departmental Responsibility for Standards”) [Jenkin happy to let Dept of Trade have lead responsibility as Cockfield implements White Paper] [declassified 2014] |
82 Oct 21 Th | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to Jenkin (“Standards”) [inter-departmental co-ordination and funding the costs of White Paper proposals] [declassified 2014] |
82 Oct 20 We | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“Standards”) [“Standards are not an end in themselves. They are a means of improving quality, which is what sells goods in world markets today”] [declassified 2014] |
82 Sep 13 Mo | Minor | Government Machinery: Jenkin letter to Lord Cockfield (“Standards, Quality and International Trade”) [sharing the cost of White Paper initiatives] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jul 28 We | Minor | Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Cockfield (“Standards Quality and International Trade”) [sharing the cost of White Paper initiatives] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jul 27 Tu | Minor | Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Cockfield (Standards, Quality and International Trade White Paper) [port controls] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jul 27 Tu | Minor | Government Machinery: Jenkin letter to Lord Cockfield (“Standards, Quality and International Trade”) [“we must anticipate some criticism and be ready to campaign hard to sell the policy”] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jul 22 Th | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“Standards, Quality and International Trade”) [“The White Paper will bring about the widespread changes we are seeking… only if the Government’s own determination to make greater use of standards is not in doubt”] [declassified 2014] |
82 Jun 25 Fr | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to Heseltine (“Standards”) [“improving the competitiveness of British goods”] [declassified 2014] |
82 May 27 Th | Minor | Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (standards in international trade) [“promoting the quality and international competitiveness of British goods”] [declassified 2014] |
82 May 21 Fr | Minor | Government Machinery: Jenkin letter to Lord Cockfield (speech to the British Standards Society) [importance of standards to industrial policy] [declassified 2014] |