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 |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 291 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Mar 9 We | Major | Justice: Whitelaw letter to Brittan ("Prisons manpower and long term expenditure") [MT consents to substantial increase in prisons manpower despite drive to reduce civil service numbers, but emphasises need for efficiency savings elsewhere in prison service] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Oct 20 Th | Major | Justice: No.10 minute to MT ("Prison adjudication") ["...review of the present system for dealing with offences in prison."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (prison education) [Committee report "...disappointing and rather unabalanced..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Dec 30 Fr | Major | Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (prisoners in police cells) [Brittan press article] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Major | Justice: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and value for money") [MT keen to maintain momentum of reform, and presses for report on efficiency in the prison service] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Major | Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (police investigations into corruption in the Home Office Prison Department Directorate of Industries and Farms) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Major | Justice: No.10 note to MT (report on tougher regimes in detention centres) [comments on the findings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Major | Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Tougher regimes in detention centres") ["...announcing an immediate programme to establish a consistent detention centre regime as a distinctive feature in the penal system and one which will command the confidence of the courts." ] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jul 16 Mo | Major | Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Managing the Long-Term Prison System: the Report of the Control Review Committee") ["One of the most fundamental problems that any prison system has to solve is how to contain its most dangerous and difficult prisoners."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Minor | Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Prison Service industries and farms") [reforms] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 4 Mo | Major | Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Regimes in Detention Centres") ["...programme of work to establish a consistent regime for the whole detention centre system... with a view to enhancing the role of detention centres as a distinctive feature of the penal system commanding the confidence of the courts."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 23 Tu | Major | Justice: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Chiswick Report") [statement to Parliament regarding report on suicide precautions in Glenochil Young Offenders Institution and Detention Centre] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Aug 7 We | Major | Justice: Brittan letter to Jenkin (prison accommodation) [No.10: "The Home Secretary is convinced that extra capacity is required despite the Government's concern to develop alternatives to custody and encourage the courts to use them."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 19 We | Major | Justice: Hurd minute to MT (Prison industries) [rationalisation] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Major | Justice: MT letter to Prison Governors Branch (Prison Service) [funding & threat of industrial action] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 17 Th | Major | Justice: Hurd minute to MT ("Possible industrial action by prison officers") [government strategy outline; Hurd statement to Parliament; Policy Unit analysis] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Major | Justice: Younger letter to Hurd (prison officers industrial action) [military assistance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Major | Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("Prison officers' industrial action") [situation report & key issues for Whitelaw meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Major | Justice: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prison officers' industrial action) [Whitelaw, Hurd, Tom King, Lord Young, John MacGregor, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley, William Waldegrave and others] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 2 Fr | Major | Justice: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prison officers' dispute") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014] |