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PREM19/1881
Parliament (Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 243
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79 Jul 5 Th Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Prime Minister's Questions") ["... I do think that it would be unwise to move from the present position to giving carte blanche to Members to ask whatever they like..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
79 Jul 9 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Prime Minister's Questions") [Institute of Professional Civil Servants industrial dispute: effect on the running of the House] [declassified Jul 2016]
80 Feb 20 We Major Parliament: MT letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons (Prime Minister's Questions: procedure) [Open Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
80 Apr 23 We Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT (Prime Minister's Questions: procedure) [Speaker statement to the House] [declassified Jul 2016]
80 Jul 14 Mo Minor Parliament: Speaker of the House of Commons letter to Frank Hooley MP (Prime Minister's Questions: identical questions on the Order Paper) [Hooley: "... waste of public money..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
81 Jun 10 We Minor Parliament: No.10 minute to Department of Trade (Prime Minister's Questions) [building society practice on house insurance] [declassified Jul 2016]
81 Jun 12 Fr Minor Parliament: No.10 minute: Pattison to Policy Unit (responses to PQs and MP letters) [requests for Policy Unit drafts] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 Jan 8 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (improving the presentation of Government policies) [briefing for Parliamentary Statements and Answers] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 May 4 Tu Minor Parliament: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Questions) [deputising during MT absences] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 May 4 Tu Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Prime Minister's Questions: Maundy Thursday: 8 April") [briefing request] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 Oct 11 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 letter to Treasury (Prime Minister's Questions) [request to review standard brief] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 Nov 12 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (Prime Minister's Questions) [request to review standard brief] [declassified Jul 2016]
83 Feb 1 Tu Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Prime Minister's Questions") [proposed changes to format] [declassified Jul 2016]
83 Oct 5 We Major Parliament: No.10 letter to Biffen PS (Prime Minister's Questions) [stand-in for MT while out of the country] [declassified Jul 2016]
83 Dec 12 Mo Minor Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Public Purchasing") ["... arrangements by which... [MT] is alerted to potentially sensitive public purchasing issues in advance of their becoming public"] [declassified Jul 2016]
84 Jan 30 Mo Minor Parliament: Kinnock letter to MT (Prime Minister's Questions) [notification of absence due to visit to US] [declassified Jul 2016]
84 Feb 9 Th Minor Parliament: Speaker of the House of Commons letter to Dale Campbell Savours MP (Parliamentary Questions) [protocol for declarations of interest] [declassified Jul 2016]
84 Feb 23 Th Minor Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Biffen PS ("Consultation documents") ["... [improving] arrangements for identification and handling... to meet recent criticisms..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
84 Jun 1 Fr Minor Parliament: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (rates legislation) ["... [suggestion] that the figures of domestic rate bills since 1966/67, given in answer to a recent Question, might be used... to develop the Government's argument in favour of rates legislation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
84 Jun 4 Mo Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (Prime Minister's Question Time) [Commons Procedure Committee] [declassified Jul 2016]