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1985 Sep 3 - 1986 Mar 7
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1801
Industrial policy (Future of British Leyland) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 294
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86 Jan 27 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL privatisation") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 3 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL bids - is foreign ownership bad?") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 4 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Opposition Day Debate on BL") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) - BL") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 5 We Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL: Austin Rover Group") [consideration of prospective bidders] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Dependence of components suppliers on Austin Rover") [statistics] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 6 Th Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [bids for British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 11 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("New bids for BL") ["Eight new bids have been received for parts of [British Leyland]. At this late stage in the GM negotiations these are more of an embarrassment than a help"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr Major Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman/Chief Executive of Ford (sale of the Austin Rover Group) [courtesy letter to mend bridges after public backlash forces Ford out of the bidding] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Note of a meeting with West Midland MPS to discuss the proposals to return Land-Rover Leyland to the private sector...") [Peter Morrison, Gilroy Bevan MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark MP, Reginald Eyre MP, Roger King MP, John M Taylor MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Industrial Policy: Morrison PS internal minute to DTI officials (British Leyland) [sale of BL: Morrison to meet with TUC delegation: briefing request] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL") [British Leyland: "The Prime Minister decided this morning to set up a small Ministerial Group to consider handling and tactics in relation to the GM bid... following the decisions at E(A)... to support the GM proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary affairs") [GM bid for British Leyland; nuclear waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 21 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [briefing for Cabinet colleagues on sale of British Leyland and GM bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 21 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Leyland") [GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 21 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("B.L.") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 21 Fr Minor Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL: MISC 126") [sale of British Leyland: MISC administration] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 25 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [draft MISC 126 paper on sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]