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PREM19/485
Home affairs (Powers of entry: review by David Mitchell, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at Department of Industry; enforcement powers of Revenue Departments; European Commission powers of entry) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 244
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79 Dec 3 Mo Major Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Rights of entry to business premises") [review of Inspectorates commissioned in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses; Howe concerned that Treasury scrutiny of Customs & Excise/Inland Revenue powers will be conflated with the wider review] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 5 We Major Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (rights of entry of inspectors into business premises) [follow-up action in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses: speaking note for Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 5 We Major Home Affairs: Sir Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (rights of entry of inspectors into business premises) [methodology of review commissioned in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 7 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (rights of entry of inspectors into business premises) [follow-up action in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 10 Mo Major Home Affairs: MT letter to David Atkinson MP (rights of entry of inspectors into business premises) [follow-up action in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Home Affairs: MT letter to James Dempsey MP (Rights of Entry) [MT announces review in response to pamphlet published by National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Feb 5 Tu Major Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Review of enforcement powers of the Revenue Departments") [proposed committee membership & terms of reference] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Feb 22 Fr Major Home Affairs: David Mitchell minute to MT ("Powers of Entry into business premises") [progress update: MT not impressed] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Jun 18 We Major Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Committee on Enforcement Powers") [membership] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Jun 26 Th Minor Home Affairs: David Mitchell PS letter to No.10 (Powers of Entry review) [progress update] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Aug 1 Fr Major Home Affairs: David Mitchell minute to No.10 ("Powers of Entry") [MT-commissioned report, prompted by booklet published by National Federation of Self-Employed; MT keen for a more extensive reduction in powers than that proposed by the report] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Nov 25 Tu Major Home Affairs: David Mitchell minute to No.10 ("Powers of Entry") [follow-up to initial MT-commissioned report examining scope for reduction in powers, prompted by booklet published by National Federation of Self-Employed] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Dec 10 We Major Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Commission's powers of entry under Regulation 17/62") [notification of first EC inspection in context of potential UK government legal challenge to EC procedure] [declassified Dec 2011]
80 Dec 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Attorney General letter to Lord Carrington ("Commission's powers of entry under Regulation 17/62") [potential UK government legal challenge to EC procedure] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Jan 16 Fr Major Home Affairs: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Powers of entry") [announcement of review findings] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Feb 3 Tu Major Home Affairs: John MacGregor PS letter to Whitelaw PS (powers of entry) [clarification of Home Office and Law Officers Department remits] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Mar 18 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (powers of entry into business premises) [MT concerned "that several Ministers are in the process of reneging on earlier decisions to rescind powers of entry" ] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Jun 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (police powers of entry to breathalyse suspects) ["should logically extend to the suspect's home"; MT: "I am very worried about this new proposal"] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Sep 25 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute: Lankester to Rickett (powers of entry and dogs in Northern Ireland) [N. Ireland Office concern that it may have overstepped its remit] [declassified Dec 2011]