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1979 Jul 16 - 1981 Jun 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/395
Broadcasting (Legislation on broadcasting; fourth TV channel; Welsh language broadcasting (threatened hunger strike by former Plaid Cymru MP Gwynfor Evans); renewal of BBC Charter) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 172
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79 Jul 18 Wed Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Jul 25 Wed Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 15 Thu Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT ("Tenth Report of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries") [response to the report on Independent Broadcasting Authority] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 20 Tue Broadcasting: Lady Plowden, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, letter to MT (ITV levy) [Chancellor of the Exchequer concerned that levy is on profits, not revenue] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 26 Mon Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (Whitelaw's proposals for legislation on broadcasting) [advertising on the fourth television channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 9 Wed Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT (ITV levy) [Whitelaw's response to Chancellor and MT's concerns on levy] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 15 Tue Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [need for alternative to levy on profits] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 15 Tue Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [Whitelaw will remain open to possibility of making changes to levy by amending Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 16 Wed Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (ITV levy) [MT wants option of making changes to levy left open] [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 30 Wed Broadcasting: Ingham record of conversation (MT-BBC Officials) [BBC licence fee, advertising on the BBC, Carrickmore, Reithian Standards, BBC cuts] [declassified 2011]
80 May 12 Mon Broadcasting: Maude minute to MT ("IBA and TV Contractors") [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 9 Mon Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("ITV Levy") [Whitelaw and Chancellor agree not to introduce new levy arrangements this session] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 11 Fri Broadcasting: Dafyyd Wigley MP letter to MT (fourth television channel) [Gwynfor Evans threatens hunger strike unless HMG establishes Welsh TV channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 29 Tue Broadcasting: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [Edwards meets with Evans] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 1 Fri Broadcasting: MT letter to Dafyyd Wigley MP (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [MT will not meet with Evans] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 15 Mon Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Edwards-Whitmore-Pattison) [Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 17 Wed Broadcasting: Welsh Office press release ("Text of a letter from the Home Secretary to the Rt Hon Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos") [HMG accepts case for Welsh television channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 24 Wed Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Welsh Language TV") [MT: "An unwise letter"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 Wed Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("B.B.C. Charter and Licence and Agreement") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mon Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (BBC charter, licence and agreement) [advertising on the BBC] [declassified 2011]