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PREM19/1539
Industrial policy (Prime Minister's meetings with Confederation of British Industry (CBI)) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 290
Themes: Industry, Strikes & other union action, Economic policy - theory and process

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Date Value Title
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Sir Terence Beckett, CBI Director-General, letter to MT (opening address to CBI Conference) [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("CBI Conference") ["My general impression is of a growing confidence in the business community that things are getting better"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 3 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry (MT meeting with Director-General of the CBI) [Sir Terence Beckett seeks MT's attendance at CBI Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 6 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Sir Terence Beckett on 11 April 1984") [CBI Conference; economic issues; electricity prices; Coal Strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 10 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Terence Beckett: 11 April 1984, 1130 HRS") [CBI Conference; economic issues; Coal Strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 10 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Meeting Between Prime Minister and Sir T Beckett") [DTI brief on electricity prices] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 11 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI) [international economic outlook, CBI Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference in Eastbourne: Sunday 4 November") [arrangements for Q&A session at Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 19 Th Minor Industrial Policy: Caroline Ryder note for the file ("CBI Conference in Eastbourne on 4 November") [Ian Gow invites MT to visit him at home] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Minor Coal: Patrick Stewart-Blacker letter to MT (MT's "enemy within" speech) [commends MT's leadership: "thank you at long last for coming out personally against the "enemy at home""] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Sep 3 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference: 4 November") [invitation to CBI dinner; suggest that MT declines; MT wishes to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Sep 18 Tu Minor Industrial Policy: Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI, letter to DT (invitation to accompany MT to CBI Conference on 4 November) ["I think you would probably enjoy it, and there should be a good dinner afterwards"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Caroline Ryder note to MT ("CBI Question and Answer Session and Eastbourne on Sunday 4 November") [timings for event; MT response to Ian Gow's invitation to tea: "Alas no time"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 24 We Minor Industrial Policy: No.10 internal minute ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security for MT's attendance following Brighton Bomb] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 29 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security following Brighton Bomb: Police advise that it is unsafe for MT to attend reception] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 1 Th Major Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI (CBI Conference: MT unable to attend due to Indira Gandhi's funeral) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fr Major Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI (CBI Conference: MT unable to attend due to Indira Gandhi's funeral) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Manufacturing Industry") ["the notion is abroad in industry that manufacturing is numbered among the things about which you do not care"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT ("Meeting with the CBI, Tuesday, 20 November 1984") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 20 Tu Major Industrial Policy: King minute to MT ("Meeting with the CBI") [Youth Training Scheme; CBI support for training initiatives] [declassified Dec 2014]