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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Showing items 21 - 40 of 66
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Running Costs Control”) [“all Departmental Ministers will, in effect, be required to conceal their pay assumptions”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 30 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [rejects Heseltine arguments] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 30 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Ministry of Defence”) [unable to agree limit with Heseltine] [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] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 11 Mo | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Running Costs Control”) [“I see no need to make any statement about pay assumptions in running costs limits until details of departmental figures have been announced”] [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 29 Fr | Major | Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [part of broader management reforms to improve efficiency] [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 Nov 30 Sa | Major | Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Running Costs”) [“cannot accept that the Ministry of Defence should be exempt from the Cabinet decision”] [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 Dec 6 Fr | Major | Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [staff attitudes “are somewhat negative”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 6 Fr | Major | Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“excellent opportunity to improve performance… is in danger of being wasted”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Tom King minute to MT (“Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower and Departmental Running Costs”) [minor upward adjustment in interim targets] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures; “overall reduction [of] 18.6 per cent since the Government took office”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Major | Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Running Businesses in Government: The Next Steps Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Transport”) [“The pressure must be to reduce costs while maintaining or improving services”] [declassified 2014] |
| 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] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT: “We must make it a success”] [declassified 2014] |