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PREM19/1839
Mapower (Employment policy: enterprise and employment measures; feasibility study of a 'Workfare' scheme to replace long term unemployment in UK) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 415
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85 Aug 5 Mo Major Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tom King (“Enterprise Allowance Scheme”) [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Minor Manpower: Jopling letter to Tom King (training services for overseas nationals abroad) [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 7 We Major Manpower: Tom King minute to MT (the Community Programme & tackling unemployment) [progress report] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 7 We Minor Manpower: Rhodes Boyson letter to Tom King (“Industrial Training Boards and Overseas Training”) [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 30 Fr Major Manpower: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (“‘Skip Ahead’ - Care Discussion Document”) [response to Conservative backbenchers’ study] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 4 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (jobs strategy) [MT irate about handling of meeting requests] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 12 Th Major Manpower: Lord Young letter to John MacGregor (“Long Term Unemployment”) [proposal for extra fraud staff] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 13 Fr Major Manpower: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Enterprise Allowance Scheme”) [unemployment qualifying period] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 18 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (”Jobs“) [unemployment statistics; fostering enterprise; creating jobs through schemes] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 2 We Major Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (Two-year YTS) [Youth Training Scheme] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 17 Th Major Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Given by the Armed Services”) [publicity value for Government of benefit to private sector] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 28 Mo Major Manpower: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Training Given by the Armed Services”) [publicity value for Government of benefit to private sector] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 1 Fr Major Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“A Strategy for Enterprise and Employment”) [proposed package of initiatives to stimulate long-term growth and manage the interim unemployment issue] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 6 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Jobs”) [comments on Lord Young’s proposed new initiatives] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 6 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Meeting on Jobs”) [employment and enterprise strategy: Lord Young’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 7 Th Major Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Government Support for Local Enterprise Agencies”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 7 Th Major Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Kenneth Clarke) [“Enterprise and Employment”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 8 Fr Minor Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Enterprise and Employment”) [forthcoming announcements] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 18 Mo Major Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Training Provided by the Armed Services”) [MT keen to cite its wider social and economic value] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 12 Th Major Manpower: David Trippier letter to MT (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]