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1985 Mar 1 - 1985 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1569
Manpower (Employment policy: special employment programmes; White Paper on education and training for young people; Youth Training Scheme (YTS); long term unemployment) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 291
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85 Mar 1 Fri Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Meeting with Tom King") [recommended line to take on employment strategy, the Community Programme and youth training] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 5 Tue Employment: Turnbull minute to MT ("Employment Related Policy Announcements") [advice on scheduling of announcements] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 5 Tue Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Education and Training for 14 to 18 year olds (E(A)(85) 14, together with E(A)(85) 8 and 9)") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 6 Wed Employment: Letwin and Willetts minute to MT ("Youth Training Scheme") [suggested tactics for ensuring value for money scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 21 Thu Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("White Paper on 14-18 Year Olds") [Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 22 Fri Employment: Flesher minute to MT ("Lord Young") [presentation of White Paper on Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tue Employment: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Education and Training for Young People") [final version of White Paper on Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Thu Employment: Alan Clark letter to MT (GLC adverts on employment opportunities for disabled people) [rebutting GLC claims] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 24 Wed Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Cost-Effectiveness of Jobs Measures") [Chief Secretary's proposal that cost of job creation schemes should be analysed and compared] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mon Employment: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (role of entrepreneurs in job creation) [thanks for forwarding paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Employment: Conservative Research Department letter to No.10 ("Helping the Disabled - An Answer to the GLC") [response to GLC advertising campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 16 Thu Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Unemployment") ['gloomy predictions' about rates of unemployment; suggestions for tackling problem of long-term unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon Employment: No.10 letter to Department of Employment ("Long Term Unemployment") ['[MT] struck by the co-existence of very high levels of unemployment...and the shabbiness of cities and motorways'; seeks schemes to address both] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 30 Thu Employment/Economic Policy: Redwood minute to Addison ("The Dornbusch Lecture") [Rudi Dornbusch's view of government fiscal and monetary policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 31 Fri Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Tax Credit for the Long-Term Unemployed") [assessment of Young's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 3 Mon Employment: No.10 letter to Office of the Minister Without Portfolio ("Tax Credit for the Long Term Unemployed") [encourages further consideration of Young's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 4 Tue Employment: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 (response to Sunday Times article on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 5 Wed Employment: King minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [schemes for tackling unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 6 Thu Employment: Young minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [schemes for tackling unemployment: tax credit proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 7 Fri Employment: Letwin and Redwood minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [comment on King's schemes for tackling unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]