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PREM19/1011
Education (Wider parental choice; education vouchers)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 205

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Date Value Title
82 Nov 5 Fr Major Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Wider parental choice") [summary of Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 5 Fr Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Wider parental choice") ["it is the providers who largely decide what is provided and how, and they are often slow to respond to the wishes and demands of parents"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Publication and follow-up of HMI reports") [MT frustrated by delay but welcomes "new proposals to public access" as a "strengthening of the rights of families"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 12 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Wider parental choice") [analysis of Keith Joseph paper: "At every step, the opposition of the bureaucracy has been fierce and unremitting. We are facing nearly 40 years of fossilised prejudice"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice") [Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Wider parental choice) [summary of Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 24 We Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph) [Joseph paper: 'Wider Parental Choice'] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 29 Mo Major Education: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Wider parental choice") [Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Wider parental choice and education vouchers") [critique of Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 31 Mo Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice and education vouchers") [Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 18 Fr Key Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("A radical voucher scheme: Paper by the Secretary of State for Education and Science") ["entails radical changes in the law and some very difficult political choices... to give all parents financial power to choose a school and to bring about the greater diversity, improved efficiency and higher standards flowing from the exercise of that power"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The revised voucher scheme") [Keith Joseph paper: "In many ways, the latest draft is worse than the first. It is obviously politically dangerous. It is also both unjust and unnecessary"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 23 We Major Education: Younger minute to MT ("Education vouchers") ["possible application of the proposals to the very different Scottish education system"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 23 We Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice: a radical voucher scheme") [Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Education: Prior minute to MT ("Wider parental choice and education vouchers") ["my views on the inappropriateness of the concept... for Nothern Ireland"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Key Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, King, Parkinson, Armstrong, Mount) [Joseph paper on radical voucher scheme] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Wider parental choice") [privatisation of education] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 13 Su Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Baroness Cox, Parkinson, Biffen, Waldegrave, Mount) [student loans; Polytechnics & socialism; education vouchers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 16 We Major Education: Baroness Cox letter to MT (concerns regarding Polytechnic of North London) [funding & activities of students' unions; examination results; proposed Review Body for Nursing & Midwifery Staff] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 24 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Wider parental choice: Paper by the Secretary of State for Education and Science") [options] [declassified Aug 2013]