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1980 Mar 26 - 1985 Jan 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1520
Home Affairs (Review of the law on public order: Green Paper) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 323
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80 Mar 26 We Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (Green Paper on the Review of the Public Order Act 1936 and Related Legislation) [MT: "A highly contentious paper"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Mar 31 Mo Major Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Review of the Law on Public Order") [comment on Whitelaw's Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Apr 8 Tu Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("A Green Paper on Public Order") [Whitelaw takes view that "contentious" issues should be faced "squarely"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Apr 9 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Green Paper on Public Order") [MT agrees to publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Apr 22 Tu Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Review of Public Order Legislation") [publication of Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 May 12 Mo Minor Home Affairs: MT letter to Christopher Price MP (National Front march in Lewisham, 20 April 1980) [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 10 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Law and Order") [Whitelaw initiative on root causes of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Tackling Crime and Public Disorder: A New Initiative") [CPRS proposal on root causes of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Tackling Crime and Public Disorder: A New Initiative") [commends CPRS proposal on root causes of crime; MT would like a small unit in the Cabinet Office to take work forward] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Mar 22 Mo Minor Home Affairs: Conference of Chief Probation Officers letter to MT ("Law & Order Debate: House of Commons 25 March") [supports Government strategy on law and order] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 May 25 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to Mount ("Law and Order: Social Attitudes") [CPRS proposal on the root causes of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 29 Tu Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Public Order") [reflection on 1981 riots and prospects for the coming summer] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Aug 5 Th Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (Public order) [considers whether a new "Riot Act" is necessary; MT concerned about public disorder connected to situation the Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Aug 31 Tu Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT ("The Review of Public Order Law: The Current Position in the Middle East") [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Oct 8 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Opinion Poll on Public Attitudes to Crime and Punishment") [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 14 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("British Crime Survey") [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jul 29 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Crime") [Home Office report on the prevention of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major Home Affairs: Redwood minute to MT ("Crime") [preventing and fighting crime, prisons, sentencing, and public perception of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Public Order Act, 1936, Section 5") [amendments to the Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [status of the review and MT's Guildhall Speech] [declassified Dec 2014]