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PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”) [“There are conflicts between our objectives as an employer and what we are trying to achieve nationally with regard to pay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”) [proposes improved offer to prevent strike action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine, Tebbit, Fowler, Jenkin, Gowrie, Hayhoe) [“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [legal objections to proceeding with policy amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury briefing for No.10 (“Civil Service unions: ballots for industrial action”) [pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Non-industrial Civil Service pay negotiations”) [“Four out of the eight unions have now held ballots with the view of obtaining a mandate for strike action”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“MISC66”) [“Sticking on 4.4% would be wrong: it implies that the only way to get an increased pay offer is to strike”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (“Review of Early Retirement Arrangements”) [“fundamental revisions of existing terms and conditions of service”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Treasury (pay negotiations) [“On balance, the Prime Minister favours [higher] offer of 4.9 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Lord Gowrie (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“I am very much opposed to the practice of civil servants notionally retiring at the age of 60, collecting their lump sums and being immediately re-employed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [implementing recommendations on policy reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of early retirement arrangements”) [synopsis of main proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Non-industrial Civil Service pay 1985”) [“pay review is… effectively at an end and I think that we can regard the outcome as satisfactory”] [declassfied 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Tebbit (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“the sooner we can extend the policy of withdrawing the option of formal retirement and re-employment in the same grade throughout the Service the better”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1985”) [Gowrie : “the level of pay increases for industrials should remain commensurate with those for the non-industrials who settle before them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“MISC 66: Ministerial Group on Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [MT agrees to advice that she should chair meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“the Government will increasingly need a Megaw type framework to legitimise its stance”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Civil Service Pay Arrangements”) [“The Treasury now need a mandate from Ministers as to what final offer might be put to the unions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay: MISC 66, 19 February”) [options following Unions’ rejection of Government proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“Only two of the civil service unions have agreed to MEGAW: we have to decide whether to impose it unilaterally or let it fall”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 66 (86) 1st Meeting: Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [negotiating strategy options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Northern Ireland Civil Service: Permanent Secretaries”) [MT rejects proposal for same grades and pay as equivalents in Home Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [negotiating strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [prevention of industrial action worth the cost of a higher offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Service Pay”) [“considerable advantages in an agreed settlement of 6%, as opposed to a disagreed settlement of 5 2/3 per cent” ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [advises going with offer of 6%, given indications Unions will accept, despite initial 17% demand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Peter Kemp minute to Peter Brooke (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [“the object of the exercise - a peaceful settlement albeit at a rate which may appear high in some eyes - looks as though it will be produced”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Travelling expenses of spouses of senior Civil Servants”) [MT approves an end to trial monitoring period subject to ongoing review] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“Civil Service Pay and Running Costs”) [advised tactics for Cabinet meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal note (Pension implications) [pension arrangements in: civil service and NHS; armed forces] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service Pay Settlement: implications for the research councils”) [“It is of the utmost importance for science and for our own credibility that we should compensate the Research Councils for the 1986-87 costs of the pay settlement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to Council of Civil Service Unions (“TSRB 1986”) [Government accepts recommendations for discretionary pay at Grades 2 and 3] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to Principal Establishment Officers (“Pay of the Senior Open Structure in the Civil Service”) [note on revised rates of pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to George Younger (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1986”) [“I am mindful that they are employed in areas of great importance for our defence effort”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service long-term pay arrangements”) [advises proceeding with the data collection which would underpin the Government proposals, in anticipation of their being accepted by the Unions, failing which “all bets would be off”] [declassified 2014]
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