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PREM19/1521
Home Affairs (Civil disorder: Scarman Report on the 1981 Brixton riots) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 172
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Date Value Title
81 Nov 2 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Scarman Inquiry") [Brixton riots: Lord Scarman's summary of findings; MT: "I'm afraid the report seems highly critical of the police"] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Nov 16 Mo Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Scarman") [Brixton riots: Lord Scarman's report] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Nov 23 Mo Major Home Affairs: Heseltine minute to MT ("Scarman") [Brixton riots: Lord Scarman's report] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Nov 23 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Raison) [Brixton riots: Lord Scarman's report; race relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Feb 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (Security Service report on exploitation of 1981 civil disturbances) [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Consultation Between the Police and the Community") [proposed statutory framework for local consulation; response to Scarman Report; MT: "I confess to being very worried about this"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 28 We Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Disturbances in Toxteth") [report from Merseyside police] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Nov 2 Tu Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Brixton") [report from Metropolitan Police on 1 November 1982 disturbances] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Public Order: Prospects for the Rest of the Summer") [Security Service assessments] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Home Affairs: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Reform of the Police Complaints System") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 10 Tu Major Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot") [report on Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 11 We Major Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot - Cabinet Discussion, Thursday 12 September") [Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 13 Fr Major Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot/Policy Unit Report and Analysis") [Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 13 Fr Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Handsworth Riot") [information on Birmingham riots and implementation of the Scarman Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 16 Mo Major Home Affairs: Lord Chancellor's Office letter to No.10 ("Handsworth Riot") [Birmingham riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT (Enoch Powell speech on "repatriation of Britain's African and Asian populations") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 28 Sa Major Home Affairs: Chequers Duty Clerk minute to MT ("Shooting in Brixton: 28.9.85") [declassified Dec 2014]