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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1920
Regional Policy (Inner city policy: regeneration of Liverpool and London; Docklands Urban Development Corporation; Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas) (Part 7)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2015 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 382
Any docs withheld? 3

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85 Nov 28 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 conversation record ("Church Commission Report on Urban Deprivation") [Kenneth Baker, John Patten, George Young, officials: handling of Government response via media following publication] [released Dec 2015]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major Regional Policy: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (Church Commission Report on Urban Priority Areas) [acknowledges receipt of copy & covering note; "shall read the report with interest"; Chief Rabbi's response to Report also attached] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 2 Mo Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Faith in the City - Postscript to Brian Griffiths' Minute") [singles out chapter on "Order and Law" for harsh criticism, further to Griffiths' more comprehensive, and likewise negative, criticism of Report, also attached] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 2 Mo Major Regional Policy: Whitelaw PS letter to Howe ('Faith in the City': Report by the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas) [speaking note defending Government's record on addressing inner city problems] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 4 We Major Regional Policy: Dean of St. Paul's letter to MT ("Faith in the City") [thoughts on "a historic sea change in the character of the Western economy" and its concomitant social problems] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 4 We Major Regional Policy: Wicks minute to Ingham ("Faith in the City - The Archbishop's Report on Urban Priority Areas") [Lawson proposal that the objections to the Report raised by Policy Unit be fed to media to encourage public debate] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 5 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 note to MT (inner-city riot areas) [cover note only for a report on views of Department of Employment/MSC staff employed in the relevant areas] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 5 Th Major Regional Policy: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [selection of ten areas for further study] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 12 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [proposed actions in the ten areas selected for special attention] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [proposal for a new Ministerial post with responsibility for encouraging communities to address social problems with their own initiatives] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 17 Tu Major Regional Policy: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [proposals] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 17 Tu Major Regional Policy: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Rate Limitation 1986-87: Redetermination of ELs for Liverpool and Lambeth") [MacGregor unhappy at lack of consultation/communication between Department of Environment and Treasury] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 18 We Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Further Consideration of Government Policy Towards The Inner Cities") [main issues; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 20 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner Cities") [MISC 104: MT request to consider scope for improving transport links to facilitate industry & employment] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 10 Fr Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [proposed machinery for implemetation of initiatives in target areas; No.10 response informed by Policy Unit criticism of proposals attached] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [paper outlining proposals for implementation of initiatives in target areas] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 24 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [circulation of Cabinet Office paper for MISC 104; Lord Young's statement on new initiative; organisational structure; public funding decisions] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 28 Tu Major Regional Policy: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Urban Regeneration Grant") [extension to Wales & Scotland] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 29 We Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner Cities: Outline of an Initiative in Eight Localities") [background; main issues; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 29 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [criticism of Armstrong's latest proposals & alternative proposals] [released Dec 2015]