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PREM19/553
Overseas Aid (Renegotiation of Lome Convention; closure of Tate and Lyle refinery in Liverpool; effect on African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar suppliers) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 252
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79 Jun 19 Tu Major Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Re-negotiation of the Lome Convention") [Carrington comes under pressure from EC to increase British contribution to European Development Fund] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 22 Th Major Industry: Earl Jellicoe letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 22 Th Major Aid: Prime Minister Ramgoolam of Mauritius letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [implications for suppliers of cane sugar] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 26 Mo Major Aid: Prime Minister Mara of Fiji letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [implications for suppliers of cane sugar] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu Major Industry: Earl Jellicoe letter to Whitmore (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [background information] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 28 We Major Industry: Robert Parry MP letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [Parry requests meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 30 Fr Major Industry: A.J. Stocks, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council letter to MT ("Proposed Closure of Tate & Lyle Liverpool Refinery") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Industry: A.J. Stocks, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [requests that MT meets a delegation of representatives] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Industry: W. H. Easton, Clerk and Treasurer of Maghull Town Council letter to MT ("Announced Closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar Refinery, Liverpool") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Industry: MT letter to Earl Jellicoe (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) ["I share your regret that this has become necessary and that as a result employment prospects will have become even more difficult in Liverpool"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 4 We Major Industry: MT letter to Prime Minister Mara of Fiji (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) ["there is no question of the closure of the refinery having any effect on the European Community's commitment to access for ACP sugar to the Community market"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 4 We Major Industry: MT letter to Prime Minister Ramgoolam of Mauritius (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) ["The Sugar Protocol is an obligation to which the United Kingdom is and will remain fully committed"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 5 Th Major Industry: Earl Jellicoe letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [capacity of Silvertown Refinery to be expanded, allowing for sugar cane imports] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We Major Industry: Trevor Jones, leader of Liverpool City Council, letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool: MT will not meet with delegation) ["I can only assume that you have not been given the full facts of the matter because I never thought of you as someone who would be so callous as to refuse to listen to a reasonable argument"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We Major Industry: MT letter to Robert Parry MP (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool: MT will not meet with delegation) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We Major Industry: MT letter to A.J. Stocks, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool: MT will not meet with delegation) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Industry: Leader of Merseyside County Council, Neville Goldrein, letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [requests meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Industry: Robert Parry MP letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [again requests meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Industry: MT letter to Earl Jellicoe (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [the Lome Convention, unemployment in Liverpool] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Industry: MT letter to Trevor Jones, leader of Liverpool City Council (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool: MT's decision not to meet with delegation) [Peter Walker will meet delegation] [declassified 2011]