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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1804
Industrial policy (Moratorium on applications for support and innovation: research and development) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 238
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84 Nov 8 Th Major Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Rees ("Moratorium on applications for support for innovation") [draft answer to Written PQ] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 14 Th Major Industrial Policy: No.10: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Review of support for industrial R&D") [MT approves Tebbit's plans but wants the spending reduced even further than proposed, and to scrutinise the proposed budget; also keen to see companies contributing to local communities in return for grant aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 20 We Major Industrial Policy: Younger minute to MT ("Review of support for industrial R&D") ["We will need to bear the needs of small firms carefully in mind..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 4 Th Major Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (R&D priorities across Government) ["There is currently no formal mechanism for taking a collective view... I believe we need to... find a way of offering Ministerial guidance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 26 We Major Industrial Policy: Chairman of the Applied Council for Applied Research and Development (1985 Annual Review of Government R & D) ["The Council are seriously worried by the picture presented in this year's Annual Review"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 27 Th Major Industrial Policy: Jenkin letter to Keith Joseph ("R & D priorities across Government") [demarcation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 28 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Annual Review of Government funded R & D") [summary & advice on handling] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 28 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Annual Review of Government funded R & D") [third report; E(A) meeting fixed to consider R&D priorities across Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 4 Th Major Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("E(A) discussion of R & D priorities: 10 July") ["...report prompts the question whether our policies for the science base risk running counter to our larger economic interests..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 8 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Howe minute to MT ("R and priorities across Government") ["...in comparison with our major trading partners, our national commitment to Research and Development shows a relative and significant decline"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 10 We Minor Industrial Policy: Gowrie letter to Whitelaw ("Copyright licensing") ["...allegedly extensive infringements of copyrights... since the use of photocopiers became widespread"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 23 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Lord Young minute to MT ("R and D priorities across Government") ["...the proportion of civil R & D funded by industry lags behind our major competitors..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R&D priorities across Government") [counter-arguments against lobbying from the research community, and Departmental scrutiny/reporting proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 110 Report on Defence R&D") ["...should be progressively reduced over the next 10 years, in order to make British industry more competitive"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser briefing for MT ("R&D priorities across Government (E(A)(85)40)") ["...R&D trends are alarmingly out of line with those of our principal industrial competitors and... this carries a great threat to our future economic prosperity"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Official Group on Defence Research and Development") [proposed reduction in spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 29 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Peter Rees minute to MT (R and D priorities across Government) ["...if industry is not raising its [research & development] spending... we must identify the reasons..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (E(A) meeting on Research & Development) [cover note only] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (E(A)(85)18th at 4pm on 31st July papers on Government Research & Development (R&D)) ["The Report's conclusions are... radical and unlikely to commend themselves to the Secretary of State for Defence"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Ministerial Group to look at R&D") [research & development: "...the key question for now is who should chair the Group"; MT defers decision pending Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]