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PREM19/1114
Regional policy (Urban Development Corporations; regeneration of Liverpool and London Docklands; Medway Towns; inner city policy and problems) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 248
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81 Dec 7 Mo Major Regional Policy: Heseltine letter to Jim Prior ("Merseyside") ["an important part of the Task Force to extend... to other areas the benefit of experience acquired on Merseyside"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Dec 9 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities statement") [Heseltine statement to Parliament: analysis of its reception] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 28 Th Major Regional Policy: Lord Bellwin letter to MT (The Urban Programme) ["I enclose a very brief note... the success stories are many"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Feb 12 Fr Major Regional Policy: Heseltine letter to Jenkin ("Medway Towns") [proposal to form an Urban Development Corporation following visit to Chatham Dockyard] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major Regional Policy: Brittan letter to Jenkin ("Regional Development Grants") ["have decided not to press for the cuts in expenditure... agreed by Cabinet... disappointing that you and others have been unable to... [find] the savings"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Mar 15 Mo Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Medway Towns and Chatham Dockyard closure") [Heseltine proposal for an Urban Development Corporation "has failed to win any support in correspondence"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Mar 16 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Alan Walters to Scholar ("The Budget/industrial development and inner cities") [critique of a proposal for a Government subsidised building programme favoured by Heseltine] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 8 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Heseltine PS ("Urban Development Grant") [Parliamentary statement rescheduled] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 26 We Major Regional Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Presentation to NEDC on inner city initiatives") [National Economic Development Council; Howe's suggested additions to Heseltine speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 22 Th Major Regional Policy: Howell PS letter to No.10 ("East London River Crossing") [Docklands area regeneration: Howell announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 29 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("International Garden Festival of Liverpool") ["Mr. Heseltine... seeks guidance on whether the South Africans should be invited": MT concurs with Pym that they should not] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Regional Policy: MT minute to Heseltine ("Merseyside initiatives") ["my warm congratulations on what you have achieved already"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 10 Mo Major Regional Policy: Jenkin letter to Tom King (Urban Programme) [review] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 10 Th Major Regional Policy: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Inner Cities Statement") [King "considers that there is a substantial package of good news... which merits an oral statement"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fr Major Regional Policy: Tom King letter to Heseltine ("Chatham Historic Dockyard") ["future environmental and economic opportunities"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major Regional Policy: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (Liverpool Sewage Treatment Works) [response to MT request for progress report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Regional Policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("Merseyside") ["my role and responsibilities... arrangements that I propose for the future"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 29 We Major Regional Policy: Edwards letter to Brittan ("Urban programme: review of local authority status") [Wales] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 1 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 note (internal): Rickett to Lankester (Prime Minister's Question Time: reference to CPRS report on Merseyside in Environment Committee's report) [request that MT quote from CPRS report not be placed in quotation marks in Hansard "otherwise we will have to publish the report"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 5 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Merseyside") [Mount opposes Jenkin proposal for a permanent departmental presence on Merseyside] [declassified Aug 2013]