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1985 Jun 3 - 1986 Jun 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1879
Parliament (House of Commons procedure: replies to Select Committee reports; conflict of interests in the House of Commons) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 341
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86 Mar 19 We Minor Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Command Paper publication") ["Accounts of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for year ended 31 March 1985. The Accounts do not contain anything controversial"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 7 Mo Minor Parliament: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Committee on Welsh Affairs Report on Coastal Sewage Pollution in Wales") ["It is not expected that the content of the response and its publication date will give rise to any Parliamentary problems"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 22 Tu Major Parliament: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Employment Select Committee Report on long term unemployment") ["... believes that the measures announced in the Budget offer a surer and more cost-effective way of providing help... than the Select Committee's proposals"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 24 Th Major Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Northern Ireland Office (Ulster Unionist Party: renomination to positions previously occupied on Select Committees and other bodies) [draft reply to Jim Molyneaux: "I do not believe the House would readily accept a situation where your members were prepared to serve on these Committees but not participate in the work of the Chamber itself"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 7 We Major Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Report of the Privileges Committee") ["... leak of the draft Report of the Environment Committee on Radioactive Waste... It is a rather odd principle that a journalist should be punished and the leaker should go free... But, however cogent Bernard's arguments, Government members must be seen to vote in favour of the report, given that the Lord Privy Seal is the Chairman and the Attorney General is a member"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 20 Tu Minor Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the Twelfth to Fourteenth and Sixteenth to Eighteenth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["I doubt that the Treasury minute will attract much attention. It is not controversial and there are no particularly newsworthy features"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jun 5 Th Major Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Confidentiality of Normal Vetting (NV)") ["If, as a result of a breach, it became necessary to discuss NV with the Defence Committee... there should be no reference to the role of the police, who have co-operated... on the understanding that the practice would remain confidential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mo Minor Parliament: Lord Lucas letter to Whitelaw ("Report to the Eden committee on Metrological Control of Equipment for Use for Trade - Government reponse") ["... Eden Report (concerning weighing and measuring equipment for use for trade)... The Deregulation White Paper "Building Businesses - Not Barriers" commits us to publishing a response by August and I now attach the draft Response")] [declassified Jul 2016]