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1981 Nov 11 - 1986 Dec 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1787
Home Affairs (Review of restrictions on shopping hours and Sunday trading: Shops Act 1950) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 495
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81 Nov 28 Sat Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Younger (review of restrictions on shopping hours and Sunday trading) [declassified 2014]
81 Dec 7 Mon Home Affairs: Younger letter to Whitelaw (restrictions on shopping hours and Sunday trading) [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 5 Fri Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Whitelaw (Shop Hours Bill) [support for all restrictions being abolished] [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 11 Thu Home Affairs: Baroness Trumpington letter to MT (“Shops Act 1950”) [MT supports Sunday trading] [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 13 Sat Home Affairs: C.B. Wilson of ‘The Book Cellar’ letter to MT (Sunday trading restrictions) [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 15 Mon Home Affairs: Baroness Trumpington letter to MT (Bill to repeal parts of the 1950 Shops Act) [Sunday trading] [declassified 2014]
82 Feb 23 Tue Home Affairs: MT letter to Baroness Trumpington (Bill to repeal parts of the 1950 Shops Act) [Sunday trading] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 26 Tue Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Shops Legislation: Committee of Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 1 Thu Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Report of the Committee of Inquiry into proposals to amend the Shops Act”) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 22 Thu Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan (“Committee of Inquiry into proposals to amend the Shops Act”) [economic effects of deregulating shop hours] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mon Home Affairs: Lord Young letter to Brittan (“Committee of Inquiry into proposals to amend the Shops Act”) [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 12 Wed Home Affairs: No.10 note to MT (“Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fri Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Shops Acts: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H committee last week”) [surrogacy, Shops Act, ethnic monitoring in the civil service] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tue Home Affairs: John Cope letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tue Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“The Shops Act: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 29 Tue Home Affairs: Rees letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Home Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Shops legislation”) [Parliamentary debate on deregulation of opening hours] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (“Shops Act: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]