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PREM19/929
Trade (Difficulties of textile and clothing industries; closure of mills; low pay in the industry; policy on imports; quota issue) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 207
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80 Jul 7 Mo Major Trade: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (Lancashire textile industry) [follow- up to meeting with Straw and Winterton] [declassified 2012]
80 Jul 14 Mo Major Trade: MT letter to Jack Straw MP (Lancashire textile industry) [follow-up to meeting with Straw and Winterton] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 18 Th Major Trade: Keith Joseph letter to Oldham and District Textile Employers’ Association (Mill closures) [“our objective is to get down the rate of inflation”] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 22 Mo Major Trade: Parkinson letter to colleagues (Government support for the textile industry) [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 22 Mo Major Trade: Nott letter to Director of ‘Low Pay Unit’ (‘Trouble Looming’ report on the woollen industry) [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 21 Fr Major Trade: Nott minute to MT (“Textiles”) [“we have some difficult decisions to take”] [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 26 We Major Trade: Gilmour letter to Nott (“Textiles”) [US imports, Multi-Fibre Arrangement, Hong Kong] [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 26 We Major Trade: Edwards letter to Nott (“Textiles”) [“Great concern”] [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 28 Fr Major Trade: MT letter to Jack Straw MP (financial assistance for the textile industry”) [MT emphasises need to control inflation] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 3 We Major Trade: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Textiles”) [proposed items for next OD(E) meeting] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 4 Th Major Trade: Atkins minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 8 Mo Major Trade: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 9 Tu Major Trade: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Textiles”) [industry concerns about lack of government support] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 12 Fr Major Trade: Sally Oppenheim PS letter to No.10 (sample of Chinese cloth) [import to UK - MT impressed by quality] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 12 Fr Major Trade: Nott PS letter to No.10 (“Textiles statement”) [US imports and energy prices] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 24 Tu Major Trade: Conservative Research Department briefing for Conservative MPs (“Textiles, clothing and footwear”) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 18 We Major Trade: Biffen minute to MT (“US textiles”) [UK at odds with EC over imports issue] [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 28 Tu Major Trade: MT letter to Cyril Smith MP (Belgian assistance to the textile industry) [complaint from constituent] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 24 Tu Major Trade: No.10 minute to MT (“Statement on Negotiations for the renewal of the Multifibre Arrangement”) [Rees statement to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 23 We Major Trade: FCO telegram to ‘Certain Missions and Dependent Territories’ (“Extension of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA)”) [declassified 2012]