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PREM19/1212
Education (Future of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA)) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 212
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80 Dec 12 Fri Education: No.10 briefing for MT (future of the Inner London Education Authority) ["likelihood of GLC Conservatives running on a platform divergent from the Government decision on the future of ILEA"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 15 Mon Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lady Young, Horace Cutler, David Smith) [Inner London Education Authority: Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 18 Thu Education: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Future of I.L.E.A.") [Inner London Education Authority: report on H committee discussions] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 31 Wed Education: Baroness Young minute to MT ("The Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: case for White Paper in preference to Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 Wed Education: No.10 minute to MT (future of the Inner London Education Authority) [cover minute for Centre for Policy Studies paper, not attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 Wed Education: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (the new block grant system: Inner London Education Authority) [note about item on 'Today' programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 Wed Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 16 Fri Education: Mark Carlisle minute to MT ("The Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [MT unconvinced by Carlisle paper, and makes extensive comments on it] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 21 Wed Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 28 Wed Education: Mark Carlisle minute to MT ("The Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 4 Wed Education: No.10 minute to MT ("ILEA Statement") [report on Carlisle statement to Commons regarding future of Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Mar 11 Thu Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Hailsham (Polytechnic of Central London) [Inner London Education Authority "will be taking over direct financial control until they are satisfied that adequate financial procedures have been instituted"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 19 Mon Education: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (future of the Inner London Education Authority) [MT "believes that the right solution would be to allow local authorities to opt out of the ILEA... [she] would like this solution to be considered further"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 1 Tue Education: No.10 letter to King PS ("Greater London Council and Metropolitan County Councils") [timetable; future work; future of the Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 28 Mon Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "We are recommending Joint Boards for other services following the disappearance of the GLC... it would be much easier to follow the same logical pattern for education"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tue Education: No.10 minute to Ian Gow ("Abolition of the ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: attendees for MT meeting with MPs "to run over the history of the last attempt to abolish the ILEA and consider the political advantages and disadvantages of a second proposal to this end"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 19 Tue Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "Following the meeting with... [MT] last week... [Keith Joseph] has revised his paper for Cabinet.... paragraph 4 opens up the issue of more favourable representation on a Joint Board for Westminster and the City"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 9 Mon Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 19 Tue Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Future of the ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "I attach a paper by Oliver Letwin with some appealing ideas for constraining capricious and far-left behaviour"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 21 Thu Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin) ["Future of the ILEA": Inner London Education Authority: abolition by stages: next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]