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1984 Apr 27 - 1985 Jan 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1615
Regional Policy (Inner city policy: Urban Programme; illegal rate setting by Liverpool City Council; appointment of commissioners; reorganisation of schools) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 334
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84 Oct 15 Mo Major Local government: Rees minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site”) [“The extra cost of the MDC retaining some of the existing gardens and opening them to the public next year will be £2 million”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tu Minor Local government: No.10 note to Department of the Environment (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [request for briefings] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 31 We Major Local government: Turnbull note to MT (Jenkin’s opening shot) [approval for Liverpool City Council sports hall projects under the urban programme] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 1 Th Major Local government: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS (Liverpool sports halls projects) [MT “asked why, if the three sports halls are being financed under the Urban Programme, the Government cannot turn them down while the City Council is failing to put its house in order”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fr Major Local government: Merseyside Task Force letter to Liverpool City Council (“Liverpool Partnership Programme - new sports centres”) [Jenkin gives approval for Urban Programme assistance toward cost] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (Liverpool City Council obligations) [“All the evidence points to a repeat of Liverpool’s challenge over the coming year”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fr Major Local government: Flesher minute to Jenkin (Liverpool sports halls projects) [City Council budget and funding for the halls] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 13 Tu Major Local government: Armstrong minute to Turnbull (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [“To keep under review any problems which may arise affecting individual local authorities, arising from failure to set a local rate for 1985-86 or to fulfil their legal obligations”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Minor Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [proposed make up of group] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Major Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [“Of particular concern is the build-up of substantial commitments for next year and beyond”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Coal: No.10 briefing to MT (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [“The two of them are trustees of a hardship fund for striking miners”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (“Meeting with the Archbishop and Bishop of Liverpool”) [City Council “determined to follow their policy of 100 per cent municipal solution for the city’s problems”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Local government: John Redwood minute to MT (“Urban Programme”) [“Setting ‘arbitrary’ targets now will be opposed on the grounds that ‘we do not know if they are realistic’”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo Major Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Urban Policy Machinery (Misc 104(84)10)”) [proposals for management structure to “enable the Government to get better value for its spending in the inner cities”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo Major Local government: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (“Urban Policy: Misc 104”) [papers to be considered at meeting on urban problems and targets] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Economy: Archbishop of Liverpool letter to MT (unemployment in Liverpool) [“unless the young people can be given greater hope of employment, their sense of insecurity will be an obstacle to the long-term commitment”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Coal: Statements by Catholic bishops and archbishops (strike strife) [Archbishop of Liverpool calls for resumption of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Local government: Kenneth Baker statement (Liverpool City Council finances) [“The City Council have completely ignored the breathing space offered by the settlement of this year’s budged in the Summer”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Local government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Liverpool City Council finances) [“there will be no extra money for Liverpool, this year or next, as a result of highwayman tactics”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Local government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Liverpool City Council: Potential Budget Crisis (MISC 109(84)3 and 4)”) [“Deficit and budget together would require either a massive rate increase, in the range of 150-220 percent or a substantial cut-back in services”] [released Dec 2014]