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1984 Apr 2 - 1984 May 29
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PREM19/1312
Manpower (Strategy for industry and employment; reducing the burden of regulation on the economy; Chequers seminar on employment - follow-up work) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 277
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Industry, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Conservatism

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Date Value Title
84 Apr 1 Su Major Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Tom King, Alan Walters, Alan Peacock, Douglas Hague, Patrick Minford, Quinlan, Redwood) ["Unemployment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 2 Mo Major Manpower: Professor Alan Peacock letter to MT (employment) [follow-up to Chequers seminar; paper on reducing working week hours to improve employment] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 6 Fr Major Manpower: Andrew Turnbull briefing for MT ("Employment/Unemployment") [for MT 'Panorama' interview] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 6 Fr Major Manpower: Manpower Services Commission letter to Alan Walters (young people in the labour market) ["the background information you requested"; Director of MSC response to 'Guardian' article] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 9 Mo Major Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Employment") [Special Employment Measures; YTS occupancy around the UK regions] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 9 Mo Major Manpower: Department of Employment briefing for MT (YTS, youth employment & relative pay) ["two briefing notes... for Panorama this evening"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 13 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jobs") ["I have recently been visiting some UK companies to hear their views on the working of the labour market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 17 Tu Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Deregulation and Simpler Government") [recommendations; MT: "very generalised"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 18 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (enterprise and entrepreneurs) [paper & a report on Policy Unit visit to UK regions] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 4 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jobs") [outcomes from Tom King seminar; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 4 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Tom King PS ("Employment") [arrangements for Seminar on 25 May] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 8 Tu Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Seminar Agenda: Trade Topics") ["Making export promotion more effective"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 9 We Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [agenda] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Reviews: Membership") [consultative documents] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 17 Th Major Manpower: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Industrial Sponsorship of Individual Students") [proposals for encouraging increasing uptake/award of sponsorships] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Jobs Seminar") [advice for Seminar on 25 May] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [Tom King papers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 21 Mo Major Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Encouraging Employee and Wider Share Ownership") ["relevant measures adopted since 1979"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 23 We Major Manpower: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") ["measures to encourage wider share ownership"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 24 Th Major Manpower: Tebbit minute to MT ("Employment Prospects and Policies Affecting the Labour Market and Employment") [Tebbit's mains points to be conveyed at Seminar on Industry and Employment in his absence] [declassified Jan 2014]