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| 82 Nov 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("CPRS") [work programme; staffing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jan 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Five Year Forward Looks") ["whether the Treasury should comment on the implications for expenditure"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Internal audit") [meeting to discuss programme of reform] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 83 Jun 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Machinery of Government at the centre") [future of CPRS; MPO; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Strategic meeting: Monday at 1800") ["an opportunity for the CPRS to hear direct from you your thought about the gaps in policywhich need to be plugged over the next year or two... morale... probably bruised by the mauling their paper received at Cabinet"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 May 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Robert Armstrong and Robin Ibbs) [Chief Scientist & Under Secretary vacancies, CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Jul 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Attorney General's Office ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [MT "content that the responsibility... should now be transferred to the Home Office"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [MT to revive proposal to transfer responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jan 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme) [reponsibility for identifying scrutinies of particular interest to MT] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jan 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Five Year Forwards Looks") [MT request for analysis] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [papers for MT meeting with Brittan, Havers & Armstrong: proposed transfer of responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Law Officers' Department ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [MT decides against transfer of responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Jan 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("CPRS work programme 1982") [details] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Forward Look") [acknowledgement] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 Jun 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Civil Contingencies Unit") [MT decision to reactivate CCU in light of "impending London Underground strike"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 81 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Chief Scientist, CPRS") [MT "misgivings" about CPRS; background on Robin Nicholson as candidate for vacant post] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS work: publication") [MT proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jun 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS") [press Q+A on disbandment] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (copying of papers to Departments) [efficiency & security concerns] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Feb 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to CPRS ("CPRS studies on unemployment and the black economy") [MT request for Treasury to be involved] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 Apr 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Keith Joseph PS ("ACARD paper on Problems of Inventors") [Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 82 Nov 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [CPRS papers; Policy Unit minute identifying shortcomings of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS") [papers covering staffing/work programme; advice to MT to meet with John Sparrow & Robert Armstrong; MT: "For what they are doing, they have far too many staff. The sooner we cut down the better"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Five-Year Forward Look") [update on responses & proposed next steps] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("HMI Reports") [difference of views over proposed announcement] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Internal audit and financial control") [case studies] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Scientific advice at the centre") [MT rejects Cabinet Office proposal to upgrade CPRS Chief Scientist post] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [background to amended proposal to transfer responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Aug 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (CPRS: future work programme) [study into reasons for continuing expansion of public sector] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Exchequer & Audit Department) [review of functions: balancing MT's desire for it to play a role in managing internal audit against the political independenace of the Comptroller & Auditor General] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 79 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (role of the Comptroller & Auditor General) ["Heseltine... argues that... [C&AG] is exceeding his functions"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (role of the Comptroller and Auditor General) [Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (venture capital) [initiatives; Advisory Council for Applied Research & Development; the French approach to national innovation] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 Oct 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Ingham ("Civil Contingencies Unit") [John Vereker's participation; CCU meeting of Ministers to discuss use of volunteers] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 83 Feb 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 note (internal) to Butler (Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme) [administration] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("CPRS study of the Unions") [advice on how to respond to CPRS proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Oct 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("CPRS report on the State Monopolies") [MT critical of report; Policy Unit recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 15 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Jan 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Five Year Forward Looks" - MT asks Treasury to examine cost implications] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Aug 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) ["CPRS work programme"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [reduction in CPRS staff] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Oct 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [work programme] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jun 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Machinery of Government at the centre": closure of CPRS; amalgamation of MPO with Cabinet Office; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, John Sparrow) ["Central Policy Review Staff": work programme; staffing. MT "not happy at present about the way in which the CPRS was working"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 May 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs) ["Chief Scientist, CPRS": MT unconvinced by need to fill vacancy, but willing to consider as long as offset savings made elsewhere] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Jan 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work for 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 May 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Douglas Wass, Sir Ian Bancroft, Sir Derek Rayner, David Wolfson) ["Internal audit and financial control"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 82 Jan 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Armstrong, Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work, 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 82 Nov 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Nott minute to MT ("Financial Management in the Ministry of Defence") [progress report on commissioned study] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 80 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Nott minute to MT ("The use of Territorial and Volunteer Reserves during industrial disputes") [case for amending legislation to enable use to maintain public services] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Scrutiny Programme") [response notifying non-participation in 1983] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Pattison minute to MT (Rayner Review on promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste) [progress reports from Government departments] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Priestley minute to Whitmore ("The Rayner Project and Quangos, Waste/Efficiency and Circulars") [various issues to consider] [declassified 2009] |
| 83 Feb 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Prior letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Northern Ireland proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Pym minute to MT ("Transfer of Ministerial Responsibility for Staff of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys") [request for approval of proposals, to be announced by reply to arranged Parliamentary Question] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("The Scrutiny Programme") [Foreign Office proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 May 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Rayner letter to MT (accepts invitation to become an adviser) ["I shall do my utmost to bring about the changes that are needed"] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 May 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("1980 Departmental scrutiny of running costs: results of further analysis") [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 79 May 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("The Rayner Project") [Rayner: "provisional shape of my thoughts"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Record of conversation (Rayner-Pattison-Allen-Priestley) ["Waste, Efficiency etc"] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Nov 11 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Jul 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry) [Scotland] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Dec 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Solicitor General letter to MT ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [reaction to Cabinet Office amendment to proposal for transfer of responsibilities to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Oct 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Solicitor General minute to MT ("Ministerial Scrutiny of Powers of Entry") [Cabinet Office proposal to transfer responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office: notification to No.10 that Percival unhappy with proposal] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 82 Oct 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Solicitor General minute to MT ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [reaction to Cabinet Office proposal to transfer his responsibilities to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Stowe letter to Private Secretaries ("Review of Quangos") [Ministers should consider reductions to Quangos for which they are responsible] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Stowe minute to Rayner ("The Rayner Project") [summary of conclusions following Rayner's discussion with MT] [declassified 2009] |
| 83 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983 - the Scrutiny Programme") [Employment proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 May 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Internal audit and financial control") [case studies] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 82 Dec 15 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 82 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford letter to No.10 (Paper for the Manchester Statistical Society) [Professor John Ashworth, former Chief Scientist within CPRS: thoughts on crisis management & the functions of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Walker letter to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Agriculture proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 May 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Walker minute to MT ("Review of Quangos") [options for abolition of Quangos] [declassified 2009] |
| 82 Sep 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Walters minute to MT ("CPRS Unemployment Study") ["virtually all their proposals have appeared before and have been extensively discussed... the proposals... are not at all incisive and lack precision"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Whitelaw letter to Jenkin ("Contingency planning in the Health Service") [use of armed services] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 79 Nov 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Review of Contingency Planning") [review of Emergency Powers Acts] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 83 Feb 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Home Office proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 79 Sep 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Civil contingencies") ["state of readiness, against the possibility of industrial disruption this coming winter"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 Nov 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Possible firemen's strike: contingency measures") [army deployment] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 79 Jul 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Government Machinery: Whitmore minute to MT (Derek Rayner's interim report on waste and efficiency in Government) [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Wicks letter to Armstrong ("Subversion in Public Life") [MT response to interdepartmental report - widen study to include local government, education, NHS; use dismissals; disquieted to learn some higher officials involved] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 83 Feb 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Younger letter to MT ("Scrutiny of HM Inspectorate of Schools in Scotland") [written reply to Parliamentary Question; MT request for redraft] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Feb 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercise 1983") [Scottish Office proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 88 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Government: MT to Neil Kinnock (request for file from Macmillan papers) [file is closed but some infomation could be released confidentially] [released Jul 2018] |
| 90 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: "John Smith" letter to The Independent ("The View from Inside Kuwait") [British man in Kuwait warns that every diplomatic initiative "prolongs the agony", only military action will end the regime; MT marked copy] [released 2017] |
| 90 Dec 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 90 Aug 19 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Alan Clark minute for MT ("Qatar - Bahrain - Abu Dhabi - Dubai Emirates") [meetings with Gulf rulers as MT's emissary - UK objectives achieved; attaches meeting notes] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Ambassador of Japan letter to Powell (Japanese Foreign Ministry release on Japan and the Middle East situation) [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Aug 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Amir of Bahrain letter to MT (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) ["The UK's continued support and assistance to Bahrain is most welcome and deeply appreciated at the current time"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Amir of Bahrain letter to MT (latest developments in the region) [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Amir of Qatar letter to MT (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) [gratitude for support; permission to use facilities at Doha] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly memorandum for the file (meeting with Iraqi Ambassador to US) ["get out thief"][unclassified?] |
| 90 Nov 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General minute for MT (the United Kingdom's strategic objectives: destruction of Iraq's military capability) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to Cabinet Office ("Medical Support for British Forces Middle East") [the circumstances to resort to the Reserve Force Act are established; "the Attorney General has made it clear that he would consider such a decision readily defensible if challenged" ] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 90 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to Defence Secretary ("Gulf Crisis: Media Handling") ["desiderability of including reference to the provisions of the Official Secret Act 1989 as they apply to defence...it would be prudent to provide a general briefing to jounalists and also editors" ] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General's Office letter to Ministry of Defence (Iraq: legal advice on the personal position of ships' masters evading the blockade) [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney-General letter to FCO (trade embargo) [glad at withdrawal of FCO reference to legal justification as "sketchy in the absence of a SCR authorising enforcement action of that kind"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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