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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)

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

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87 Aug 11 Tu Major Regional Policy: Baker minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["There is serious under-achievement in inner city schools": proposed measures] [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 30 Th Major Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner Cities: Cabinet Office interim report") ["timetable for further action on the key priorities identified in the interim report"] [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 Jun 29 Mo Minor Regional Policy: Central Office of Information letter to Ingham (inner city schemes) [Departmental coordination] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Aug 25 Tu Major Regional Policy: Cope minute to MT ("Inner cities: Interim Report") [self-employment; tourist industry; ethnic minorities; target areas] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Tim Janman MP (intimidation on estates) [concerns raised by Hackney constituent] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Aug 6 Th Major Regional Policy: Hurd minute to MT ("Inner Cities: interim report") [recommendations for improvement of the final draft; tackling crime through the 'Safer Cities' programme and the National Crime Prevention Organisation] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Norgrove ("Inner Cities") [best if Ken Clarke took charge of presentation] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 17 Th Major Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Wicks ("Inner cities") [presentation of the policy; Ken Clarke best placed to lead it] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 17 Th Major Regional Policy: John Redwood memorandum for MT ("Inner cities") [advice on Departmental lead; implementation strategy; sustainable funding; targets; staffing] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 27 Mo Major Regional Policy: Lord Young minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [advice on implementation of the Government initiative] [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 Jul 31 Fr Major Regional Policy: Major minute to MT ("Inner Cities: interim report") ["access to work is the key [issue]... there may well be more cost effective measures to deal with unemployment in the inner cities than action on housing"] [declassified Jul 2016]
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 Sep 22 Tu Major Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner Cities Report") [MT meeting with author of report; 'report disappointing' but recommendations could usefully be sharpened] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Aug 6 Th Major Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("The Phoenix Initiative") [MT "takes a close interest... I understand that certain difficulties have now arisen between the department and the Phoenix project": request for status report] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Aug 10 Mo Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute (internal) to Policy Unit (Policy Unit papers) [MT request for summary document of various inter-related papers] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 31 Fr Major Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner Cities: interim report") [MT "hopes... [final report] will bring out very clearly the way in which local initiative and enterprise ... are central to the rejuvenation of inner cities... [MT] content that work should go ahead on the selection of twenty areas where the impact of the programme would be clearly demonstrated... [and] that work should contine towards an authoritative statement of Government policy"] [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]