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PREM19/2463
Regional Policy (Inner Cities Initiative: action following report by Eric Sorensen; Ministerial and departmental responsibility for coordination and presentation of policy towards inner cities; Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to assume coordination responsibility; designation of further Urban Development Corporations (UDCs)) (Part 11)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 306
Any docs withheld? 3

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87 Sep 23 We Major Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Younger (relocation of the Ministry of Defence Quality Assurance Unit) [MT request that MoD officials meet with Teesside Urban Development Corporation following her recent visit to Teesside] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 23 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Whitelaw meeting with MT to discuss allocation of responsibilities for the policy between Departments] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 23 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["one or two quotes which suggest that the tide is beginning to turn"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 24 Th Major Regional Policy: Clarke letter to Walker ("Welsh Development Agency: financial limit") [increase in financial limit] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 25 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Metropolitan police report on Hackney) ["one of the objectives of our inner cities policy is to ensure that the benefits of future Dockland-type developments do have knock-on effects. As the Hackney experience demonstrates, that just won't happen: it needs to be made to happen"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 28 Mo Major Regional Policy: MT letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (Inner cities) ["the ideas which you expressed in the report are very much in tune with my own"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Inner Cities report: E(UP)") ["This meeting could mark a watershed in urban policy if it formally endorses a shift from Government-led, cash-based programmes to an approach based on locally-led, self-help initiatives"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 1 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Leadership in inner cities") [proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 1 Th Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner cities") [correction of figures quotes by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 21 We Major Regional Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Safer cities") [importance of crime reduction for urban regeneration] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 23 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Transatlantic inner city revival") ["Visit to USA 24th September - 7th October": findings] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 23 Fr Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Ad hoc meeting: "to discuss the overall shape and direction of... policy in the light of Mr Sorensen's report"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 26 Mo Major Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Ridley, Lord Young, Clarke, Major, Richard Wilson, Eric Sorensen) ["Inner cities: improving targeting and presentation, and encouraging business leadership"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 27 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Bearpark ("Inner City seminar") [key objectives; attendees; timing] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 28 We Major Regional Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Mini UDCs") [Urban Development Corporations: "in the light of our current discussions... I should explain briefly how these proposals relate to my other initiatives"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 5 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Maintaining momentum on inner cities") ["growing 'mutterings' that we are not following through fast enough... a short round-up of where we are, and what needs to be done"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 6 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Norgrove ("Maximising private/public leverage in inner cities") [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 9 Mo Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner cities") [White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 10 Tu Minor Regional Policy: Department of Environment letter to Cabinet Office (Eric Sorensen) [Departmental posting relating to work on inner cities policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 11 We Major Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Whitelaw ("Safer cities") ["we have consistently emphasised that the responsibility for preventing crime... extends to the whole community... The tasks for the next few weeks are to decide on the areas in which the "Safer Cities" programme should operate"] [declassified Jul 2016]