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PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["QL has been finding it difficult to accommodate all the Bills departments require... 1985-86 should represent the core of this Government's programme... to leave the following year or two freer of contentious items..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: King letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I must resist most strongly the suggestion that the Wages Bill should be deleted from the programme for the next session"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I appreciate the pressures on the next session. But I shall nevertheless want to argue strongly in Cabinet that the Education Bill should remain in the 1985/86 programme... essential for taking forward our policies for raising standards..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jopling letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86: Agriculture Bill") ["... if it is not to attract the opposition of the industry, it will need to offer the kind of funding arrangements which the industry is prepared to work with"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Gowrie letter to Biffen ("Updating of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") ["... offices whose holders are disqualified for membership of the [HoC]... an extraordinarily large number... a major review of the Act... did highlight a number of inconsistencies... hence the large number of amendments..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["... QL are very worried about the dangers of an initial programme that is too large"; No.10: "... [Whitelaw and Wakeham] fear that this will be a very ragged and difficult discussion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Animals legislation") ["... the only way to retain credibility on this issue is to announce at about the time of the Queen's speech for next session that there will be a Bill in 1986/87. I appreciate that this would be an unusual step..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT (Legislative Programme in 1986-87) ["... [possibilities] which could win us friends and recapture the popular spirit..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill") [".. a note setting out the options available to us following our defeat in the House of Lords..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Younger letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [Scottish Housing Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Command Paper: Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland - Public Income and Expenditure for the year ended 1985) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Home Office (MT, Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Brittan, Hurd, Havers, Wakeham, Kenneth Clarke) [European Court of Human Rights] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Legislative Programme next Session") [major Government legislation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Education (Corporal Punishment)") [Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham, Lord Denham, Bob Dunn] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee on Thursday 25 July") [Criminal Justice Bill 1986/87 and drugs misuse] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Copyright Licensing") [photocopying of copyright material] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [confiscation of drug traffickers' assets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: John Moore letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87") [Building Societies and Banking Bills] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham letter to MT (Water Fluoridation Bill) ["... there is a hard core of opposition to it mainly from our own side..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Dog Licensing") [options] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") ["It is important that colleagues should start thinking now what Bills they want to bid for so that the bids themselves reflect so far as possible developed rather than purely broad-brush ideas"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") [Banking Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Armed Forces Bill 1986") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Dockyard Services Bill") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Home Office letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill") [introduction & publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislation for 1986-87 and beyond") [thoughts on the legislative programme and Manifesto] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") [MoD Police Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-1987: Copyright and other Intellectual Property Bill") ['hiving-off' provisions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Nick Ridley to Lord Caithness ("Legislation on Marine Pilotage") [compulsory pilotage] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Young letter to Whitelaw ("1986/87 Legislative Programme") ["... [must] take account of the expected impact on business of each proposal requiring further legislation... consistent with our wider target of increasing employment"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme for next Session") ["... such an unexciting programme will make it very difficult to convey the impression of a Government with plenty of steam in it..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Richard Luce letter to Whitelaw ("Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration: scope of proposed Bill") ["The main purpose of the Bill is to extend the jurisdiction of the PCA..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Legislative Programme 1986-87 and 1987-88") ["... a number of politically controversial and weighty Bills"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Walker letter to Whitelaw (Gas Bill) ["We have had a very successful Committee stage... and I am determined to see that there will be no Government amendments in the House of Lords"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Petroleum Bill") ["... important implications for the management of our offshore oil and gas resources"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Bill") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Wakeham, Lord Denham, John Moore, Kenneth Clarke] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw ("QL Legislative Programme 1986/87 Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87: Bill proposed for this Session by the Secretary of State for the Environment") [legislation requiring services of Parliamentary Draftsmen as a priority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Biffen ("Company political donations (Government contractors)") ["... [why should we] recommend that Ministers should abstain in a vote on measures to which we are fundamentally opposed[?]"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Special Development Order) ["... chances of guerrilla tactics by disgruntled government back benchers"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Legislative Programme: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["... the programme will be a very heavy one for this stage of a Parliament"] [declassified Jul 2016]
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