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PDF 81 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Ridley letter to Pym ("Debate on the role of the C & AG") [Comptroller & Auditor General; "we should agree to Joel Barnett's request for his debate on condition that it is delayed long enough to allow us to announce to the House our further proposalson nationalised industries efficiency audit"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Brittan letter to Biffen ("Debate on the role of the Comptroller & Auditor General") ["I now attach the terms in which I propose that the Financial Secretary will announce the Government's proposals during the course of the Debate"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Role of the C & AG") [Comptroller & Auditor General; note setting out Government position; "There is... now an Early Day motion on the Order paper, sponsored by Mr Du Cann and Mr Barnett, which has over 200 signatures calling for "legislation to allow proper accountability""] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") ["The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes proposals... on the Government's response to the views put forward during the Debate in the House of Commons on 30 November 1981"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") [report on meeting with Edward du Cann: "made clear his continued support for the PAC's view that the C&AG should be able to follow public money wherever it goes"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Brittan letter to MT ("Internal audit in Government Departments") ["I undertook to let you have a progress report... enclosed... A useful start has been made in what we know is a long campaign which needs to be sustained"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Parliamentary Affairs") ["We seem to have Parliamentary problems over the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Head of the Government Accountancy Service) [proposed downgrading and transfer of post to Treasury] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General") [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill: paper for Cabinet: "high risk that if we oppose the Bill on Second Reading we will lose the vote... best course is to seek an accommodation... but this does not mean that we have to accept all the recommendations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer) [handwritten note listing topics for the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Treasury record of conversation (Howe, Biffen, Jenkin, Brittan, St John-Stevas, Du Cann, Barnett) [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General" - Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["incompatible with our objective of encouraging commercial behaviour in the nationalised industries"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [attached record & main points of Howe, Jenkin, Biffen, Brittan meeting with St John-Stevas, Barnett & Du Cann] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General") [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Role of Comptroller and Auditor General: Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [proposals for reaching accommodation with Norman St John-Stevas over his Private Member's Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Norman St John-Stevas MP letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill) ["sorry that we cannot reach agreement on the Bill's contents. However I am sure our positions are not so far apart as to preclude agreement in the future. In view of the massive support for the principle of the Bill in the House... and the very powerful support in the press... it would be highly desirable to proceed in an agreed and orderly fashion"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Civil List audit") [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill implications] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["As you will have seen from the record of the meeting [with St John Stevas and Joel Barnett] I told them that the Bill's proposals on the scope of the audit were unacceptable... The problem now is where we go from there"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [St John-Stevas Private Member's Bill: Parliamentary tactics and Governments position] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["Norman St John-Stevas MP is promoting the... Bill to change the role and status of the Comptroller and Auditor General... At their meeting on 16 December... the Cabinet considered what the Government's attitude to the Bill should be... The main conclusions were as follows"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Biffen PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["The Lord President's view... is that... a Cabinet Minister should speak on behalf of the Government at Second Reading and take the Bill through Committee"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised industries: the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") ["The [Private Member's] Bill's promoters are so far reluctant to compromise... Parliament and Government share a common objective in trying to improve the efficiency of the nationalised industries and both recognise that each has a role to play in supervising them. I set out below some ideas which we have developed. These might provide a way forward"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("The Civil List, and the Stevas Bill") ["You asked for a short note on the extent to which... [the] Bill protects the Civil List position. The attached note shows that it does so pretty well, but that the problem of possible Amendments of course remains"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [""Value for Money" audit of the nationalised industries is clearly the central issue, and if we can find a satisfactory solution in this area we should be better placed to combat the other unacceptable features of the Bill"; proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["Our opposition to the Bill centres on these clauses, which would would permit the C&AG to investigate nationalised industries... together with the proposed repeal of the power to submit nationalised industries to an efficiency audit by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission"] [declassified Aug 2013]
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