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79 May 7 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (appointment of Derek Rayner to head review into promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste in Government departments) [declassified 2009]
79 May 7 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (briefing notes for meeting with Derek Rayner) [Rayner "should be a hatchetman"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 9 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Rayner letter to MT (accepts invitation to become an adviser) ["I shall do my utmost to bring about the changes that are needed"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 11 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Maureen Harris, secretary to Rayner, letter to Stowe (second copy of Rayner's acceptance letter) [Stowe: "This procedure does not commend itself to me as an example of efficiency and avoiding waste!"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Stowe letter to Private Secretaries ("Review of Quangos") [Ministers should consider reductions to Quangos for which they are responsible] [declassified 2009]
79 May 24 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("The Rayner Project") [Rayner: "provisional shape of my thoughts"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 24 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Walker minute to MT ("Review of Quangos") [options for abolition of Quangos] [declassified 2009]
79 May 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Hailsham minute to MT ("Review of Quangos") [administrative tribunals and other quasi-judicial tribunals] [declassified 2009]
79 May 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Bancroft minute to Stowe ("Review of Quangos") [options for abolition of Quangos: response to Walker's minute] [declassified 2009]
79 May 31 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Stowe minute to Rayner ("The Rayner Project") [summary of conclusions following Rayner's discussion with MT] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Ministers ("The Rayner Project") [instructions to Government departments] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 8 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Pattison minute to MT (Rayner Review on promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste) [progress reports from Government departments] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Bancroft minute to MT ("Promotion of Efficiency and Reduction of Quangos") [comments on progress reports from Government departments] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 20 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Priestley minute to Whitmore ("The Rayner Project and Quangos, Waste/Efficiency and Circulars") [various issues to consider] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Record of conversation (Rayner-Pattison-Allen-Priestley) ["Waste, Efficiency etc"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 10 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Whitmore minute to MT (Derek Rayner's interim report on waste and efficiency in Government) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Pattison minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") [draft Parliamentary statement on reduction in the size of the Civil Service] [declassified 2009]

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