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PREM19/2462
Regional Policy (Inner Cities Initiative: report by Eric Sorensen; Phoenix initiative; development of Canary Wharf and extension of Docklands Light Railway) (Part 10)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 262
Any docs withheld? 2

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87 May 6 We Major Regional Policy: Moore letter to Ridley ("Canary Wharf: Docklands light railway") ["delay beyond 28 May... will certainly... [mean] further financial penalties... [and] that LRT would not be able to guarantee the 42-month timescale... which is the Consortium's central requirement"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 May 12 Tu Major Regional Policy: Ridley minute to MT (Canary Wharf) ["It is very desirable to bring the negotiations to an early conclusion... but I wish to avoid setting a hard and fast deadline, possibly resulting in collapse of the negotiations, in the middle of the Election campaign"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 May 20 We Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Docklands: Canary Wharf") ["the [development] negotiations are very difficult and it is possible the whole deal may fall through] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 May 20 We Major Regional Policy: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Take up of central government programmes in inner cities") [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 18 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") ["a degree of tension building up about the role to be played by the Department of Trade and Industry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 25 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") ["programme of work... fills me with gloom in its implication that the new Committee will head down the same barren road as its predecessor"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 26 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Enterprise "Road Show"") ["The proposal is a method of putting... investors and young businessmen together"; MT sceptical but content for proposal to be given further consideration] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 26 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [strategic advice] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 26 Fr Major Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Channon ("Canary Wharf: progress report") [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 29 Mo Minor Regional Policy: Central Office of Information letter to Ingham (inner city schemes) [Departmental coordination] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jun 30 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit (internal) minute to Wicks ("Phoenix and inner cities") ["If we can get enough bandwagons rolling, they will create their own energy and momentum"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 3 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Inner City") ["terms of reference... are completely lacking in imagination... with notable exceptions... we have failed with existing policies"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 3 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities: work programme") ["risk of friction between Departments... is a valid concern. But if your inner cities initiative is to have any chance of an impact it must not be based on the highest common denominator amongst Departments"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 6 Mo Major Regional Policy: Ridley PS letter to Lord Young PS (inner city issues) [copy of Ridley draft speech to the Greater London Area Conservative Political Centre; No.10 not satisfied with draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 6 Mo Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner Cities: work programme") [MT not satisfied with draft paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 6 Mo Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner Cities: work programme") ["the effect may be to make Departments feel rather more under attack from the Study than had been envisaged"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 6 Mo Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Urban Policy: E(UP) (87) 1st Meeting") ["to agree on a work programme to be put in hand without delay"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 7 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Canary Wharf") ["The Master Building Agreement is ready, but the Consortium cannot raise the necessary finance"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 10 Fr Major Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Channon ("Canary Wharf") [proposed take-over of the project by Olympia and York] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 15 We Major Regional Policy: Ridley PS letter to Lord Young PS ("Co-ordination of correspondence on Inner Cities") ["a few cases where the link has inadvertently broken down... lessons to be learnt"] [declassified Jul 2016]