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1981 Jul 14 - 1983 Jan 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1111
Prime Minister (Prime Minister's meetings with Dr David Clark MP about factory closures and unemployment in his South Shields constituency)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 189
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81 Jul 17 Fr Minor Prime Minister: MT letter to Dr. David Clark MP (closure of North East Audio Ltd, South Shields) ["I am of course ready to see you about this"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 23 Th Minor Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & unemployment in South Tyneside; National Enterprise Board] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 24 Fr Minor Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & unemployment in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 27 Mo Minor Prime Minister: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark to discuss redundancies & unemployment in South Shields) [list of forthcoming Ministerial engagements as requested by MT at the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Feb 8 Mo Minor Prime Minister: Dr. David Clark MP letter to MT (factory closures in South Shields) [request for a follow-up meeting following further closures] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Mar 3 We Minor Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & economic regeneration in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Mar 4 Th Minor Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John MacGregor, Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & economic regeneration in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 1 Th Minor Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT (redundancies in South Shields) [MT agrees to a third 'closure' meeting with Dr. David Clark] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 5 Mo Minor Prime Minister: MT letter to Dr. David Clark (generating new economic activity in South Shields) [follow-up to meeting on 4th March about redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 22 Th Minor Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark) (1430Z) [redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 27 Tu Minor Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (1445Z) (MT, John MacGregor, Dr. David Clark) [redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 19 We Minor Prime Minister: John MacGregor letter to Dr. David Clark MP (provision by the English Industrial Estates Corporation of small factory units in South Shields) [follow-up to meeting with MT on 27th April] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 16 Fr Minor Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with Dr. David Clark MP to discuss British Shipbuilders redundancies in Tyneside) ["seeks a fourth closure meeting"; MT: "I cannot refuse"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 28 We Minor Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing (meeting with Dr. David Clark MP) [closure of Tyneside shiprepair yards; regional industrial policy] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 29 Th Minor Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, David Clark MP) [shiprepair yards at South Shields: allocation for repair of warships damaged in Falklands war] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 17 Tu Minor Prime Minister: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (ship repair closures in South Tyneside) [notes that Municipal Borough Council has been in touch with Heseltine & Jenkin; details how South Tyneside is benefiting from current Deparment policies; offers to field a Minister at MT's meeting with Dr. David Clark MP] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 17 Tu Minor Prime Minister: MT letter to Dr. David Clark MP (shiprepair yards at South Shields: allocation for repair of warships damaged in Falklands war) ["I am sorry to say that we cannot offer help through this route"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 20 Mo Minor Prime Minister: Dr. David Clark MP letter to MT (ship repair yards in South Shields) [request for repair work on HMS Intrepid to go to South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 24 We Minor Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with Dr. David Clark MP to discuss F.C. Lowe & Son factory closure) [MT agrees to a fifth meeting with Dr. Clark] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th Minor Prime Minister: Heseltine letter to David Clark MP ("Enterprise Zones") [South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough application rejection] [declassified Aug 2013]