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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1616
Regional Policy (Inner city policy: Liverpool City Council finances; Liverpool Garden Festival site; Birmingham Convention Centre; London Docklands Development Corporation) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 193
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85 Feb 5 Tu Major Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (Liverpool City Council capital expenditure) [proposed warning letter] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Local government: Jenkin note to MT (“Liverpool current developments”) [“a series of insensitive or provocative acts is giving the Council very bad publicity”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Local government: Joseph minute to Jenkin (“Liverpool: Capital Expenditure”) [“The course of action you propose may not lead to the issue of a direction, or not yet”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Local government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool and PWLB”) [“we do not want to give Liverpool an excuse for claiming that the Government has precipitated a financial crisis”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Local government: No.10 briefing (“Liverpool City Council: Possible S.78 Direction”) [“The immediate question is whether or not to make formal inquiries about the Council’s position”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Education: MT letter to Bishop of Liverpool (adult training on Merseyside) [“we plan to more than double the number of adults trained”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tu Major Local government: Lawson PS minute to Jenkin PS (“Liverpool and PWLB lending”) [“risks if we fail to disabuse the market of the notion that the PWLB will lend in all circumstances”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tu Major Local government: Jenkin PS minute to Treasury (“Liverpool and PWLB lending”) [suggests issuing circular “in time for the rate limited authorities and Liverpool to take into account”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 22 Fr Major Sport: Young PS letter to Jenkin PS (“Proposed ‘Eurodome’ stadium in the London Docklands”) [scheme under consideration with the London Dockyards Development Corporation and merchant banking firm] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Local government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate capping: MISC 109”) [“The rate-capping revolt is crumbling, principally because the Government has refused to panic and stuck to its policy”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 28 Th Minor Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival site”) [“the site will be re-opened to the public in 1985”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Major Sport: Redwood minute to Young (“An exhbition hall and sports centre in Docklands”) [“I suggested that the LDDC should move quickly to the next stage”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major Sport: Jenkin PS letter to Young PS (Eurodome stadium) [“keen to ensure that viable private sector schemes for Docklands are encouraged”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major Sport: Jenkin PS minute to No.10 (Eurodome stadium) [proposals “do not appear to have yet been worked up in sufficient detail to attract planning permission”] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 15 We Major Sport: Addison minute to MT (“Proposed Eurodome stadium in the London Docklands”) [“It will be for the Docklands Development Corporation to consider their merits in the first instance”] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 16 Th Minor Sport: Addison minute to Redwood (“Lord Bruce and the ‘Eurodome’ stadium”) [Bruce seeks discussion on proposals] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mo Major Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“It is vital that we demonstrate our commitment to the economic recovery of the area”] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 23 Th Major Local government: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“the expenditure does not look well-based”] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 28 Tu Minor Local government: Department of Environment note to No.10 (“Liverpool Garden Festival”) [press coverage of reopening] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 29 We Major Local government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [no to proposal: “would put further pressure on LA capital expenditure”] [released Dec 2014]