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1984 Aug 2 - 1985 Mar 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1619
Science and Technology (Annual Review of Government-funded Research and Development: maintaining the strength of the science base) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 359

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Date Value Title
84 Aug 2 Th Major Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“1984 Review of Research”) [“expenditure on Defence R&D is disproportionately high … research in support of manufacturing industry is disproportionately low”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Aug 6 Mo Major Science and technology: No.10 minute to Armstrong Nicholson (“Annual Review of Government-funded Research and Development”) [MT gives go ahead for work in response to review] [released Dec 2014]
84 Aug 7 Tu Minor Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 (“Annual review of government-funded research and development”) [error in previous minute on funding costs] [released Dec 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 (“Maintaining the strength of the science base”) [Heseltine’s attitude to funding for the Science Vote] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo Major Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [departmental responses to ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mo Major Science and technology: David Barclay minute to Nicholson (“BBC 2 Horizon programme on science”) [MT requests more detail on “your idea that the Government might seek to put forward a more positive view of British science and technology”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [publication of factual material in ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The exploitation of Research Council funded inventions”) [“Many researchers do not have the skills to pursue exploitation themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Science and technology: David Barclay minute to No.10 (“Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph”) [points Joseph likely to raise: higher education policy; economic awareness in schools; teacher’s pay; ‘the switch’] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 21 Fr Major Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Exploitation of Research Council inventions”) [“such an emormous step from the present protective bureaucracy would not be wise”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 21 Fr Major Science and technology: John Butcher minute to MT (“IT skills shortages”) [“the DTI and I have been so anxious to concentrate on securing additional resources from the private sector”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 21 Fr Major Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“The case for an increase in IT graduates has been pressed on me vigorously by the economic departments”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 2 We Major Science and technology: No.10 briefing (“Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph”) [Joseph attempting “to at least get the ‘switch’ underway in the short-term”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 4 Fr Major Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“The science base”) [Robin Nicholson “suggests a series of measures designed to increase MOD’s spending in the universities, without increasing its overall expenditure on research”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 4 Fr Major Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph) ["various issues in the field of education"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 4 Fr Major Science and technology: No.10 briefing (meeting with Joseph) [“Can a discussion of the Switch take place without tackling the long term problem of the balance of courses in Universities?”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 8 Tu Major Science and technology: David Barclay minute to Robin Nicholson (“Maintaining the strength of the science base”) [“officials should work out the details as a matter of urgency”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 10 Th Major Science and technology: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [proposed meeting on Joseph’s plans] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [hopes “any support that we give in extra resources is additional to a substantial switch programme within the universities and colleges themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major Science and technology: King minute to Rees (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I can justify contributing £1m in 1985/6 provided that the other economic departments do the same”] [released Dec 2014]