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1982 Sep 6 - 1983 Jan 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1157
Manpower (Measures to counter unemployment) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 294
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82 Oct 18 Mo Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (unemployment: business start-up scheme review) [MT request for review to be concluded by end of November] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS report on unemployment) [MT "has asked me to thank you... for all the work that went into this report... follow-up work has now been commissioned"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 26 Tu Major Manpower: Biffen letter to Tebbit ("Select Committee on Employment: Machinery of Government") [proposed scope of response to Committee request for information] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 28 Th Major Manpower: No.10 minute to MT ("The Youth Service") [MT critical of proposals that would increase the duties of local education authorities] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 10 We Major Manpower: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("House of Lords Select Committee Report on Unemployment - Government Reply") [cover letter for final version of the reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 16 Tu Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Department of Health and Social Security ("Unemployment") ["you might find it useful to have to hand some details which we have here of Workfare Schemes in Jersey and USA"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 29 Mo Major Manpower: Tebbit minute to MT ("Unemployment") [progress report following meeting on 14 October] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th Major Manpower: Department of Employment press release ("Youth Training role for Chambers of Commerce says Employment Minister") ["Training is not just a matter for government"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Temporary unemployment measures") [comments on Tebbit paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Manpower: Fowler minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["Following your meeting on 14 October... I was asked to follow up six areas"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 6 Mo Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (unemployment measures) [comments on Tebbit/Fowler follow-up reports to 14 October meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Manpower: No.10 minute to MT ("Unemployment") [cover note for various follow-up papers to 14 Oct meeting: "Agree that we set up a meeting to take decisions on these recommendations?"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["Following your meeting of 14 October I was asked to consider a list of possible fiscal measures"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Manpower: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["following the meeting of 14 October at which you considered the CPRS checklist of measures... three points that I would like to make on the responses you have received"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Manpower: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Enterprise Allowance) ["I attach notes... on which Michael Grylls MP is expected to question the Prime Minister this afternoon"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Manpower: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Unemployment Measures") [minutes from Howe, Fowler & Tebbit: "purpose of the meeting is to... [assess] which measures should be considered futher and which should be ruled out"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 22 We Major Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Unemployment measures") ["A few comments on the minutes from the Chancellor, the two from Norman Tebbit and one from Norman Fowler"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Fowler, Tebbit, John Sparrow, Ferdinand Mount) [unemployment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 24 Mo Major Manpower: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (addressing unemployment and encouraging enterprise) [Robin Butler record of conversation with Lord Mayor of London] [declassified Aug 2013]