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PREM19/1683
Civil Service (Long term management and manpower policy: control of civil service running costs; duties and responsibilities of civil servants; performance bonus experiment; budgeting in government departments) (Part 18)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 380
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85 Sep 10 Tu Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [extension of targets introduced in 1984] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 13 Fr Major Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Manpower Numbers: Staff in Post at 1 July 1985”) [“reduction since the Government took office in 1979 is some 18.6 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 16 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to David Young (“Fraud Staff”) [agrees in principle to case for staff increase but recommends a less ambitious programme] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 19 Th Major Civil Service: David Young letter to John MacGregor (“Fraud Staff: Expansion”) [presses case for his own recommended scale of staff increase] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Civil Service: Tebbit letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“I am disappointed that no special provision is made to deal with fee earning establishments”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Government Emergency Communications Systems”) [MT request for advice on possibility of competitive tenders] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 25 We Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“clearly of the first importance that this change in procedure is not seen… as an indication that the Government is going soft on pay”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 26 Th Major Civil Service: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Pay Prospects for 1985/86 and Longer Term Arrangements for Civil Service Pay”) [“The price of real pay increases above the levels of our competitors will be counted in lost jobs”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 30 Mo Major Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“essential that running costs are set at realistic levels”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 1 Tu Major Civil Service: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [savings which “could be obtained by Departments through improvements in energy efficiency”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 2 We Major Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“3 October Cabinet: Control of Running Costs”) [“we have agreed to running costs targets ultimately in place of a manpower count”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 3 Th Minor Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [response to MT request for improved management training] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 7 Mo Major Civil Service: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [outlines concerns with Lawson proposal] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 9 We Minor Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [MT request for improved, and value-for-money, management training] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 10 Th Minor Civil Service: Northern Ireland Office minute to No.10 (Anne Mueller speech on excellence in public sector) [personnel management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to George Younger (Running Costs) [“I want to make an early announcement confirming the decision to move to control of running costs and ending the pay assumption”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Howe (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [Select Committee scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 14 Mo Major Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“I feel that there would be merit in… an alternative method”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 15 Tu Major Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“Department of the Registers of Scotland… is an important element in achieving our policy of extending home ownership in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
85 Oct 21 Mo Major Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [“I could not justify presenting your Department’s estimates to Parliament in a format that differed from others”] [declassified 2014]