PREM19/2463
Regional Policy (Inner Cities Initiative: action following report by Eric Sorensen; Ministerial and departmental responsibility for coordination and presentation of policy towards inner cities; Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to assume coordination responsibility; designation of further Urban Development Corporations (UDCs)) (Part 11)

Document type:	File list item
Source:	TNA, PREM19 series
Release date:	2016 Jul 21
Classification:	Confidential
Page count:	306
Any docs withheld?	3

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Date	Value	Title
87 Oct 23 Fr	Major	Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Ad hoc meeting: "to discuss the overall shape and direction of... policy in the light of Mr Sorensen's report"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 27 Fr	Major	Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [key points] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 1 Th	Major	Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner cities") [correction of figures quotes by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 24 Th	Major	Regional Policy: Clarke letter to Walker ("Welsh Development Agency: financial limit") [increase in financial limit] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 30 Mo	Major	Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["we are not making full use of... private companies... What is needed is a central contact point"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 10 Tu	Minor	Regional Policy: Department of Environment letter to Cabinet Office (Eric Sorensen) [Departmental posting relating to work on inner cities policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 20 Fr	Major	Regional Policy: Fowler minute to MT ("Mini UDCs") [Urban Development Corporations: Fowler's perspective on the Ridley proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 11 We	Major	Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Whitelaw ("Safer cities") ["we have consistently emphasised that the responsibility for preventing crime... extends to the whole community... The tasks for the next few weeks are to decide on the areas in which the "Safer Cities" programme should operate"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 21 We	Major	Regional Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Safer cities") [importance of crime reduction for urban regeneration] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 28 Mo	Major	Regional Policy: MT letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (Inner cities) ["the ideas which you expressed in the report are very much in tune with my own"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 23 We	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Whitelaw meeting with MT to discuss allocation of responsibilities for the policy between Departments] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 25 We	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Ministerial responsibilities for the inner cities") [Ridley unhappy about the perception that Clarke will be taking over responsibility] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 26 Th	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Inner cities") [Cabinet Office paper for MT meeting: geographical areas where government work should be intensified] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 9 Mo	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner cities") [White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 23 We	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["one or two quotes which suggest that the tide is beginning to turn"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 17 Tu	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["Your Chairmanship of EUP, and the breakfast meetings... are key elements here. But I do not believe that you can carry the load by yourself... I share Mr Wilson's doubts about the Ridley/Young proposal, and... There could hardly be a place for Mr Clarke in this machinery... [Ridley's] relations with Mr. Clarke are not good"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 25 Fr	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Metropolitan police report on Hackney) ["one of the objectives of our inner cities policy is to ensure that the benefits of future Dockland-type developments do have knock-on effects. As the Hackney experience demonstrates, that just won't happen: it needs to be made to happen"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Sep 30 We	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Inner Cities report: E(UP)") ["This meeting could mark a watershed in urban policy if it formally endorses a shift from Government-led, cash-based programmes to an approach based on locally-led, self-help initiatives"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Oct 27 Tu	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Bearpark ("Inner City seminar") [key objectives; attendees; timing] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 6 Fr	Major	Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Norgrove ("Maximising private/public leverage in inner cities") [declassified Jul 2016]