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1986 May 2 - 1986 Oct 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1840
Manpower (Employment policy: employment measures; review of employment policies) (Part 14)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 235
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86 Jun 2 Mon Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Clarke) [“Workfare”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 10 Tue Manpower: Fowler letter to Lord Young (‘Restart’ pilot scheme: cases of failure to comply) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 10 Tue Manpower: Channon letter to Kenneth Clarke (“European Community: UK Initiative on Creating Conditions for Employment Growth”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 13 Fri Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Incentives in UK, France and Germany”) [comparison of ‘welfare to work’ systems] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 16 Mon Manpower: Lord Young letter to Norman Fowler (‘Restart’ pilot scheme: benefits sanctions for refusal to comply) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 18 Wed Manpower: Howe minute to Kenneth Clarke (“European Community: United Kingdom Initiative on Creating Conditions for Employment Growth”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 30 Mon Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Action for Jobs - Television Advertising”) [“encouraging results… we now need to step up the pace of the campaign”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 30 Mon Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Workfare: The Restart Programme”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 4 Fri Manpower: John MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“Action for Jobs: Television Advertising”) [cost of extension to campaign] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 16 Wed Manpower: Peter Mellor letter to MT (labour costs) [“pay is now the key problem of the British economy”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 23 Wed Manpower: Department of Employment briefing for MT (meeting with Ralph Howell MP: Workfare/Restart) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 24 Thu Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Ralph Howell: Workfare”) [unemployment policy and benefits] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 25 Fri Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Real Training, Real Skills, Real Jobs - visit to the Construction Industry Training Board”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 25 Fri Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ralph Howell MP) [unemployment policy and benefits] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 1 Fri Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Community Programme Project at Lambeth”) [Lambeth Council opposed to project and resistant to offer of Government funding] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 1 Fri Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Review of Unemployment Policies”) [“one of the crucial battlegrounds for the next Election”] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 29 Fri Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (“Benefits for the Long Term Unemployed and for Young People”) [international comparison] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 31 Sun Manpower: Lord Young letter to John MacGregor (“Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment”) [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 4 Thu Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit letter to Lord Young (local recruitment difficulties and benefits for the long-term unemployed) [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 5 Fri Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Benefits for the Long Term Unemployed and for Young People”) [MT request for international comparison] [declassified 2014]