1985 Sep 10 - 1986 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Fee Earning Businesses In Government”) [question of “whether control of gross running costs should continue to apply for fee earning activities”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 25 Fr | Minor | Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Appraisal of Performance and Potential in the Senior Open Structure”) [paper on the proposed introduction of “more structured and formalised methods”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Major | Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in relation to Ministers”) [Parliamentary scrutiny] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Mar 21 Fr | Major | Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Grades 2 and 3: Discretionary Pay and Arrangements for Assessment and Appraisal”) [Government follow-up to Top Salaries Review Body report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Major | Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“too early to draw general conclusions about the operation and effects of bonus arrangements”] [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 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] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Major | Civil Service: Cabinet Office note for the record (Robert Armstrong’s evidence to the Treasury & Civil Service Select Committee) [role of civil servants; implications of Westland affair] [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 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] |
| 86 Apr 28 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Department of Health & Social Security letter to Cabinet Office (“Managing a Government Department”) [Ken Stowe lecture to the Royal Society of Arts] [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 Nov 18 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [Heseltine sticks to his guns] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“This is not simply a matter of accounting practice: it is a crucial issue… for the support of our defence capabilities”] [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 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 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 Nov 6 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 30 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [rejects Heseltine arguments] [declassified 2014] |