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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1728
Education (Student loans: review of financial support for students) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 262
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Date Value Title
85 Jun 27 Th Major Education: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Keith Joseph, Younger, Edwards, Hurd, Lord Young, Rees) [review of student support] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 2 Tu Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [“Review of student support”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 8 Mo Major Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“likely resource implications which such a scheme would have for the legal system”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 10 We Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 25 We Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [consultative paper] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 3 Th Major Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“a limited number of proposals, the main one of which, a graduate tax, is fraught with objections”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 9 We Major Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“we should not pursue the idea of a graduate tax”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 10 Th Major Education: Lord Young letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“basic reservations about the graduate tax proposal which runs into many of the disadvantages of a student loan scheme”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 18 Fr Major Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“I see no merit in introducing an income tax surcharge”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 21 Mo Major Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“decision that we took collectively in July not to proceed with the loans option has removed from the paper the principal alternative to the present system”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 25 Fr Major Education: Edwards letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“risk the criticism… [of] implementing loans by other means”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 31 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [“I have always been an advocate of student loans… there is no realistic alternative”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 4 Mo Major Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“cost of student support… remains so much higher in the UK than in many other countries”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 7 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [addresses issue of student loans] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 12 Tu Major Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 15 Fr Major Education: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Training Loans”) [proposals for 3-year pilot scheme] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 20 We Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Training Loans”) [“an excellent idea. They will introduce the public gradually to the idea of loans instead of grants… [but scheme is] poorly designed”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major Education: Edwards letter to Lord Young (training loans proposals) [“unfortunate that the Banks have proved so reluctant to participate in this Scheme”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 3 Tu Major Education: Tom King letter to Lord Young (“Training Loans”) [“In Northern Ireland we shall be taking a keen interest in your… 3-year pilot”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Education: John MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“Training Loans”) [highlights issues of concern but supportive in principle] [declassified 2014]