1983 Mar 2 - 1986 Sep 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1788
Home Affairs (Family Policy Group: renewing the values of society) (Part 3)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 279 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Mar 3 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Home Office letter to Cabinet Office (“Family Policy Group: Use of Local Authority Education Facilties by the Community as a Whole”) [“formidable difficulties and risks can arise when attempts are made to use schools for non-educational purposes”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 8 Tu | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Family Policy Group Meeting: 9 March”) [use of school facilities outside school hours] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 8 Tu | Major | Home Affairs: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (“Family Policy Group: Paper by Secretary of State for Environment on Sport and Recreation”) [“Poor parenting is more widespread than any of us would like”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Howell, Fowler, Jenkin, King, Tebbit, Baroness Young, Timothy Raison, Mount) [“Family Policy Group”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 14 Mo | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Family Policy Group”) [Howell paper on ‘Transport and the elderly’] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 23 We | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Home Office (Family Policy Group meeting) [papers on extending access to council & school leisure facilities and preparation for parenthood] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 15 Fr | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Family Policy Group: 19 April 1983”) [use of school recreation facilities; support in parenthood; charitable donations] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Joseph, Fowler, Howell, Tebbit, King, Baroness Young, Mount) [Family Policy Group] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Keith Joseph (“Family Policy Group: Joint DOE/DES Circular on Dual Use and Commuity Use”) [“This initiative on dual use is an essential element of our wider efforts to bring more existing facilities into community use”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 22 Fr | Major | Home Affairs: Cabinet Office letter to Inland Revenue (“Family Policy Group: Charities and Tax Avoidance”) [concerns over abuse of tax incentives for charitable giving] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 7 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Keith Joseph letter to Patrick Jenkin (“Proposed DoE/DES Circular on Dual and Community Use”) [“might well be taken by local education authorities to imply a call for additional expenditure”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation) [Jenkin/Joseph policy disagreement over terms and issuing of circular on joint recreation facilities; MT concerned about passage of rate-capping Bill if circular issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Peter Rees minute to MT (“Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation”) [“another example of Government exhorting local authorities to pursue desirable polices but denying them the resources to carry these out”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 21 Tu | Major | Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (“Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation”) [need for consistency in approach to public and private sector] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Major | Home Affairs: Waldegrave PS letter to No.10 (“Copthall Stadium”) [“the Government may be criticised locally if the project fails”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 30 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Family and Matrimonal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill”) [proposed reforms to child abduction law, recognition of foreign nullity decrees] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Major | Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“A Conservative Society”) [“the traditional family is supposed to be disappearing. But does the evidence bear this out?”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Major | Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Possible ‘Minister for Children’/‘Minister for the Family’”) [“An attempt to split off all responsibilities relating to children and concentrate them in a single Department would raise awkward questions of definition”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Major | Home Affairs: Law Commission report (“Family Law. Illegitimacy (Second Report)”) [proposed new rules] [declassified 2014] |