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PREM19/1880
Parliament (Legislative programme) (Part 14)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 372
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85 Oct 9 We Major Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") ["It is important that colleagues should start thinking now what Bills they want to bid for so that the bids themselves reflect so far as possible developed rather than purely broad-brush ideas"] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 5 Tu Major Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") [Banking Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 6 We Minor Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Armed Forces Bill 1986") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 11 Mo Minor Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Dockyard Services Bill") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Nov 12 Tu Minor Parliament: Home Office letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill") [introduction & publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Dec 17 Tu Major Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
85 Dec 20 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislation for 1986-87 and beyond") [thoughts on the legislative programme and Manifesto] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 3 Fr Minor Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") [MoD Police Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu Minor Parliament: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-1987: Copyright and other Intellectual Property Bill") ['hiving-off' provisions] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo Minor Parliament: Nick Ridley to Lord Caithness ("Legislation on Marine Pilotage") [compulsory pilotage] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo Minor Parliament: Lord Young letter to Whitelaw ("1986/87 Legislative Programme") ["... [must] take account of the expected impact on business of each proposal requiring further legislation... consistent with our wider target of increasing employment"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme for next Session") ["... such an unexciting programme will make it very difficult to convey the impression of a Government with plenty of steam in it..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 24 Mo Major Parliament: Richard Luce letter to Whitelaw ("Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration: scope of proposed Bill") ["The main purpose of the Bill is to extend the jurisdiction of the PCA..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 26 We Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Legislative Programme 1986-87 and 1987-88") ["... a number of politically controversial and weighty Bills"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr Major Parliament: Walker letter to Whitelaw (Gas Bill) ["We have had a very successful Committee stage... and I am determined to see that there will be no Government amendments in the House of Lords"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Petroleum Bill") ["... important implications for the management of our offshore oil and gas resources"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Parliament: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Bill") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Wakeham, Lord Denham, John Moore, Kenneth Clarke] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Parliament: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw ("QL Legislative Programme 1986/87 Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87: Bill proposed for this Session by the Secretary of State for the Environment") [legislation requiring services of Parliamentary Draftsmen as a priority] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 23 We Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Biffen ("Company political donations (Government contractors)") ["... [why should we] recommend that Ministers should abstain in a vote on measures to which we are fundamentally opposed[?]"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Apr 25 Fr Minor Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Special Development Order) ["... chances of guerrilla tactics by disgruntled government back benchers"] [declassified Jul 2016]