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PREM19/1217
Environmental affairs (Environmental policy: acid rain, pollution control; Environment Committee report; agriculture and conservation; reports of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 244
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Agriculture, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (International organizations), Environment

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Date Value Title
84 May 27 Su Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a Presentation on Acid Deposition") [MT, Jenkin, Kenneth Baker, William Waldegrave, Nicholas Eden, David Pascall, Walter Marshall, Peter Chester, John Mason, Hermann Bondi, Martin Holdgate, Robin Nicholson] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 5 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: Lord Cockfield letter to Jenkin ("Booklet on UK Environmental Achievements") [references to the countryside & wildlife] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 letter to Director of Central Electricity Generating Board ("Acid Rain") [list of chemical reactions involved in formation of acid rain] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Minor Environmental Affairs: FCO letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("London Economic Summit Initiative on the Environment") ["need to clear briefs on environmental issues with DTI"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 8 Fr Minor Environmental Affairs: No.10 note to MT ("Acid Rain") [Select Committee on the Environment] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Minor Environmental Affairs: Rees PS letter to Jenkin PS ("Booklet on UK Environmental Achievements") [Rees "concerned that the Treasury was not... consulted"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Walker PS letter to No.10 (Acid Deposition) [Parliamentary written answer announcing publication of report; No.10 notes need for inter-Departmental coordination of environmental policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT ("Acid Deposition") ["costs... [of] particular emission control standards... role of nuclear power... may be helpful if I explain some of the difficulties"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT ("Acid Deposition") [policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Acid Deposition") ["Jenkin's proposals on acid rain and on vehicle emissions... should be supported... we do question however whether our nuclear objectives should be publicised as part of this package... The paper underplays the opportunities for a major UK initiative on lean burn engines"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 19 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Walker, Younger, Edwards, Ridley, Gummer, Waldegrave, Peggy Fenner, Barney Hayhoe, Kenneth Baker, Malcolm Rifkind, Robin Nicholson, David Pascall) ["Acid Deposition"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Major Environmental Affairs: Younger minute to MT ("Incidence of leukaemia in Bonnybridge/Denny area") ["your approval to set up a non-statutory independent review... a factory in Bonnybridge owned by Re-Chem International"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 2 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Jopling letter to Jenkin (UK environmental achievements) ["I am still left with the impression that you have not fully appreciated the very real changes which we have made... in order to achieve the right balance between agriculture and conservation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 17 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Environment Council at Luxembourg, 28 June 1984) [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 25 We Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("Agriculture and Conservation") [criticism of Dept of Envrionment paper; "Wildlife and Countryside Act is leading to huge handouts for farmers to do nothing"; compensation vs conservation of land; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Acid Deposition and Car Emissions") [comment on dispute between Ridley and Jenkin] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Acid Deposition") [House of Commons Environment Committee report: analysis & summary of key issues arising from report] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 28 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Acid Raid") ["There is now an agreed policy... If we do not come out soon with a clear and forthright statement... we will be driven into pledges we would rather not make"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: Prime Minister Willoch letter to MT (Joint Declaration on the Preservation of Clean Air) [W. Germany/Norway; "I feel confident that your Government will participate in the efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 9 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: Howe minute to Jenkin ("Acid Deposition") [emissions from large combustion plants"expose the hesitations of others... we shall not... accept... [an EU] directive contrary to our interests"] [declassified Jan 2014]