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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1605
Prime Minister (Prime Minister's meetings with Gordon Brown MP to discuss factory closures in his Dunfermline East constituency and general regional policy)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Unclassified
Page count: 39
Themes: Union of UK nations, Employment, Industry

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Date Value Title
83 Sep 11 Su Major Industry: Gordon Brown letter to MT (future of Fisher Controls) [“raises questions about the Government’s future intentions for Scottish regional policy”] [released Dec 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Industry: No.10 briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [closure of Fisher Controls factory and Cowdenbeath unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Minor Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gordon Brown) [closure of Fisher Controls factory and Cowdenbeath unemployment] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major Unemployment: Gordon Brown letter to MT (meeting with Gordon Brown) [factory and shop closures in constituency] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Major Unemployment: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown (unemployment in constituency) [can be “misleading to consider individual communities in isolation from the employment opportunities in the whole of the Travel-to-Work Area of which they are a part”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Minor Unemployment: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown MP (unemployment in Dunfermline East constituency) [response to proposed initiative] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major Unemployment: Scotland Office briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [impact of Assisted Area status review on Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo Minor Unemployment: Scotltish Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gordon Brown MP”) [redundancies and closures in Dunfermline East constituency] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Industry: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown (“SDA: Woodend Estate”) [Fisher Controls factory complex now in the Agency’s possession] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Unemployment: No.10 briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [proposed retention of Development Area status for Dunfermline] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Minor Industry: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown MP (“SDA: Woodend Estate”) [constituency matter] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Minor Unemployment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gordon Brown, Allan Stewart) [unemployment in Dunfermline East constituency] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fr Major Industry: MT letter to Gordon Brown (factory units in Cowdenbeath) [possibility of establishing an Enterprise Trust for the area around Dunfermline] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fr Minor Industry: MT letter to Gordon Brown (development and enterprise in Dunfermline East constituency) [follow-up to meeting on 11 December] [declassified 2014]