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PREM19/1728
Education (Student loans: review of financial support for students) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 262
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81 Apr 6 Mon Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (student loans) [vehemently opposed to the principle] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 8 Wed Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Student Loans”) [MT concerns about Carlisle draft Answer] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 10 Fri Education: Brittan letter to Carlisle (“Student Loans”) [notes draft Answer not entirely in accordance with H Committee decisions] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 14 Tue Education: Carlisle PS letter to No.10 (“Student Loans”) [“considerable merit in a system… involving a mixture of grants and loans”] [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 22 Fri Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Student Loans”) [outline scheme for preliminary discussion with the banks] [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 10 Wed Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Student Loans”) [“the issues involved are complex”] [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mon Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Student Loans”) [“we agree that student loans are in principle attractive”] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 2 Wed Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Student Loans”) [Keith Joseph’s proposals - MT: "I am very sceptical about such a scheme"] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 8 Tue Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Student Loans”) [options paper] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 13 Sun Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Biffen, Parkinson, Waldegrave, Baroness Cox) [student loans, polytechnics, education vouchers] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 16 Wed Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (policy guidelines about student loans) [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 18 Fri Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Student Loans”) [proposed scheme “bothers me a lot”] [declassified 2014]
83 May 3 Tue Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Student Loans”) [statement to Parliament on Government policy] [declassified 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Education: Tom King letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Training Loans”) [new proposals] [declassified 2014]
85 May 23 Thu Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Student Support and Training Loans”) [draft consultative paper] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 3 Mon Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“a pity that… there is no proposal further to encourage sponsorship by industry”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mon Education: Edwards letter to Tom King (“Training Loans”) [pilot project in Wales] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 13 Thu Education: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Keith Joseph, Younger, Edwards, Hurd, Wakeham, Lord Young, Peter Rees) [review of student support] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 21 Fri Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Review of Student Support”) [draft consultative paper] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 27 Thu Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Number of DES Ministers”) [request for increase from two to three junior Ministers] [declassified 2014]