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PREM19/1805
Industrial policy (Moratorium on applications for support and innovation: research and development) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 268
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Date Value Title
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities") ["...resources devoted to defence... are excessive... buying more defence equipment overseas... lower employment [but long term advantages]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities across Government") [E(A) - MISC119 Report: "...disappointing... There is no shortage of government-funded R&D... the question the report needs to address is whether and why we are short of private sector R&D?"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("E(A) - MISC119 Report") [vexed by delay in considering the Report's findings] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Ministerial Group on research and development priorities across Government (MISC 119)") ["...improving the efficiency, competitiveness and innovative capacity of the UK economy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 2 We Major Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development ("ACARD report: 'Software: A Vital Key to UK Competitiveness'") [MT: "The Council has identified an important area for the future..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Howe ("Framework Programme for European Community research and development") ["...one of the major issues for the [UK] Presidency later this year"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 15 Tu Minor Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Official Committee on Research and Development") [individual proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 15 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for Channon ("E(RD)(86) 1st meeting, 17 April 1986") [Government funded research & development] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Industrial Policy: Chairman of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development letter to MT (1986 Annual Review of Government funded R&D) [contribution towards wealth creation; summary key ACARD concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (Government funded R&D) ['Pull through' scheme; R&D Framework Programme; EUREKA] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 24 Th Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Francis Tombs") [1986 Annual Review of Research & Development] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jul 25 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of ACARD, Chief Scientific Adviser) [1986 Annual Review of Research & Development] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Aug 11 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Channon minute to MT (Ministerial sub-committee on Research & Development) [first report; "...remit to develop policies to enhance the contribution of R&D expenditure, public and private, to the development of the economy"; MT concerned that Defence contribution to 'Pull-Through' scheme inadequate] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 1 Mo Minor Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Annual Review of the Government funded R&D") [MT approves publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Defence R & D") ["It would surely be wrong to abandon the constraint set by E(A), as Mr. Younger wants. But it seems to me quite likely that in due course some increase in the figures will have to be granted..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Sep 26 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Defence Research and Development expenditure (E(RD) (86) 8)") ["My very firm impression is that MOD have done nothing at all to implement the decision taken by E(A) last February that expenditure on defence R & D should be reduced..."] [declassified Dec 2014]