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PREM19/1880
Parliament (Legislative programme) (Part 14)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 372
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85 Jun 3 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["QL has been finding it difficult to accommodate all the Bills departments require... 1985-86 should represent the core of this Government's programme... to leave the following year or two freer of contentious items..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 3 Mo Major Parliament: King letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I must resist most strongly the suggestion that the Wages Bill should be deleted from the programme for the next session"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 3 Mo Major Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I appreciate the pressures on the next session. But I shall nevertheless want to argue strongly in Cabinet that the Education Bill should remain in the 1985/86 programme... essential for taking forward our policies for raising standards..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 4 Tu Major Parliament: Jopling letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86: Agriculture Bill") ["... if it is not to attract the opposition of the industry, it will need to offer the kind of funding arrangements which the industry is prepared to work with"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 5 We Major Parliament: Lord Gowrie letter to Biffen ("Updating of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") ["... offices whose holders are disqualified for membership of the [HoC]... an extraordinarily large number... a major review of the Act... did highlight a number of inconsistencies... hence the large number of amendments..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 5 We Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["... QL are very worried about the dangers of an initial programme that is too large"; No.10: "... [Whitelaw and Wakeham] fear that this will be a very ragged and difficult discussion] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 10 Mo Major Parliament: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Animals legislation") ["... the only way to retain credibility on this issue is to announce at about the time of the Queen's speech for next session that there will be a Bill in 1986/87. I appreciate that this would be an unusual step..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 4 Th Major Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT (Legislative Programme in 1986-87) ["... [possibilities] which could win us friends and recapture the popular spirit..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 15 Mo Major Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill") [".. a note setting out the options available to us following our defeat in the House of Lords..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 17 We Major Parliament: Younger letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [Scottish Housing Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 17 We Minor Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Command Paper: Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland - Public Income and Expenditure for the year ended 1985) [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 17 We Major Parliament: No.10 letter to Home Office (MT, Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Brittan, Hurd, Havers, Wakeham, Kenneth Clarke) [European Court of Human Rights] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 18 Th Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Legislative Programme next Session") [major Government legislation] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 24 We Major Parliament: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Education (Corporal Punishment)") [Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham, Lord Denham, Bob Dunn] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 26 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee on Thursday 25 July") [Criminal Justice Bill 1986/87 and drugs misuse] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Aug 6 Tu Minor Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Copyright Licensing") [photocopying of copyright material] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Aug 13 Tu Major Parliament: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [confiscation of drug traffickers' assets] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Aug 20 Tu Minor Parliament: John Moore letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87") [Building Societies and Banking Bills] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Parliament: Wakeham letter to MT (Water Fluoridation Bill) ["... there is a hard core of opposition to it mainly from our own side..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Dog Licensing") [options] [declassified Jul 2016]