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1981 Mar 1 - 1985 Jan 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1590
Overseas Aid (Renegotiation of Lome Convention: closure of Tate and Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 175
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81 Mar 1 Su Major Merseyside: Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool letter to MT (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool) ['only through your personal intervention can the disastrous consequences of this closure be averted'] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 3 Tu Major Merseyside: Walker minute to MT ("Closure of the Liverpool Refinery: Meeting with Lord Jellicoe") [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool: Jellicoe's conditions for keeping refinery open] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 4 We Major Merseyside: Brittan minute to MT ("Tate & Lyle Liverpool Refinery") [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool: Brittan agrees with Walker that government should not intervene] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 4 We Major Merseyside: Lankester minute to Whitmore ("Meeting with Tory MPs - Tate & Lyle") [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool: preparation for meeting with MPs] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 4 We Major Merseyside: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lord Jellicoe, Chairman of Tate & Lyle-Joseph-Walker-Brittan) [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 4 We Major Merseyside: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Merseyside MPs) [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery in Liverpool] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 5 Th Major Merseyside: Lankester note to Ibbs ("Merseyside") [threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Sugar Refinery: '[MT] is becoming increasingly concerned about the industrial and employment situation on Merseyside'] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 5 Th Major Merseyside: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Heseltine) ["Tate & Lyle": threatened closure of Liverpool sugar refinery; Merseyside Development Corporation] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 6 Fr Major Merseyside: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle Liverpool sugar refinery: draft letter to Councillor Sir Trevor Jones) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 9 Mo Major Merseyside: Young letter to Lankester ("Tate & Lyle") [threatened closure of sugar refinery in Liverpool: progress report on enterprise scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Merseyside: MT letter to the Archbishop of Liverpool (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Merseyside: MT letters to Robert Parry MP and Malcolm Thornton MP (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Merseyside: MT letter to Councillor Sir Trevor Jones (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu Major Merseyside: Archbishop of Liverpool letter to MT (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 20 Fr Major Merseyside: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Merseyside") [possible measures to help Merseyside] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 20 Fr Major Merseyside: Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool (Tate and Lyle Closure)") [response to refinery closure: possible measures to help Merseyside] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 20 Fr Major Overseas Aid: Prime Minister Mara of Fiji letter to MT (Sugar Protocol to the Lomé Convention) [market access of ACP States to European Community; closure of Tate & Lyle's Liverpool sugar refinery] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 23 Mo Major Merseyside: MT letter to Councillor Neville Goldrein (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 24 Tu Major Merseyside: Young letter to Lankester ("Tate & Lyle") [progress report on work to ameliorate effect of Liverpool sugar refinery] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 25 We Major Merseyside: Councillor Neville Goldrein letter to MT ("Closures on Merseyside") [Merseyside Development Corporation and Enterprise Zone] [declassified Dec 2014]