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PREM19/1881
Parliament (Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 243

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Date Value Title
85 Feb 4 Mo Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to Department of Defence (Prime Minister's Questions) [briefing: late submissions] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Feb 18 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Questions tomorrow") [topics] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 14 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Procedure Committee") [review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jun 17 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Biffen, Wakeham) [Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Jul 5 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... our response to the suggestions made by the... Committee, in addition to the conclusions of... [MT's] meeting... of 17 June"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... a matter for the House... and I should, of course, be willing to fall in with [its] decisions... For my part, I have no complaint to make about the existing arrangements..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 11 Mo Major Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... having given further thought to your proposals, I see very considerable difficulties... I believe... [present] arrangements represent the best available balance between the desire of the House to question the Prime Minister and the burdens which the system imposes on the Prime Minister and her staff"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 26 We Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to John David Taylor MP (Prime Minister's Questions) [transfer of Taylor PQ to Welsh Department] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to House of Commons (transfer of Prime Minister's Questions) [procedure for handling of interdepartmental Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 23 We Minor Parliament: No.10 letter to Michael Meacher MP (Prime Minister's Questions) [transfer of Meacher PQs to Fowler] [declassified Jul 2016]