1983 Mar 9 - 1986 May 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1786
Home Affairs (Policy towards the Prison Service: prison manpower; Scrutiny of the Prison Service) (Part 2)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
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| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 291 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 May 6 Tu | Major | Justice: Home Office briefing for MT ("Prisons: Wednesday 7 May, 4.30pm") [prison officers' dispute: "For years, firm management in the prison service has been lacking..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Major | Justice: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Prison Officers' Dispute situation report") ["...talks to take place with the Home Office... the situation in the prisons has stabilised."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Major | Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Prison Officers' Dispute") [prison riots; emergency legislation; union talks with Home Secretary; independent inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Major | Justice: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prisons - your meeting with the Home Secretary") ["Your meeting on Wednesday 7 May could authorise progressive changes in the workings of prisons for the next twenty years, or condemn them to a continuation of the present archaic and corrupt system."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 7 We | Major | Justice: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tom King, John MacGregor, Lord Young, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley and others) [prison officers' dispute] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Major | Justice: No.10 note to MT (prison officers' dispute: PA review) [MT request for report; No.10: "Appendix 9 hints at the abuses."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 13 Tu | Major | Justice: Home Office letter to Prison Officers' Association (industrial dispute) [No.10: "To an inexpert eye, there are no signs of a climbdown here."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 22 Th | Minor | Justice: HM Prison Service letter to Cabinet Office ("Prison officers' dispute") [arrangements for police assistance] [declassified Dec 2014] |