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| 85 Jun 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Trade and Industry") [savings in DTI's mainline programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [ministers' views on guidelines] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public expenditure survey") [uplift for the baseline] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jan 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Review") [presentation of public spending cuts and tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["a substantial shortfall has emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [gas and electricity industries] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [how to resolve outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [timeframe for publication] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Your Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph") [large spending programmes not being examined radically enough] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Paul Gray ("Private Finance in Public Expenditure") [request from Civil Engineering EDC] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jan 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [departmental plans should be presented positively] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [options for savings; NHS contractor arrangements; territorial programmes] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [Rees should proceed as proposed] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Apr 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Survey") [MT thinks 1986/7 provision should be uplifted] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Servcie Pay and Expenditure in 1985-6") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [debate to happen first] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [membership] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [potential difficulties] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Tebbit PS ("DTI Expenditure") [spending cuts] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure by Departments") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure Survey") [MT wants increased spending on programmes to be kept to a minimum] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure") [meeting to discuss main issues facing the government] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Apr 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note for the record (Turnbull-Minford call) [Minford's IEA paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("The Public Expenditure Scorecard") [Walker not waiving on corporation tax] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (chemists' pay) [applicability of principle to other NHS contractors] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (handling of Cabinet) [inability to squeeze anything more out of Walker] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (latest proposals) [possible savings, DHSS changes] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (meeting with Rees) [spending provision in Scotland] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (PEWP publication arrangements) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (public expenditure since 1975/76) [areas of increased spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group) [potential Star Chamber] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (public expenditure survey) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [Fowler, Heseltine's concerns about cuts] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [spending blocks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure White Paper) [draft of part 1] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure) [different categories of spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (ratio of public expenditure to GDP) [ratio has begun to decline] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Treasury assumptions) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Jan 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Andy Bearpark minute to Channon PS ("Regional Development Grant") [delay of payments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Baker PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("Education, Science and Arts Committee (ESAC) Report on Public Expenditure") [draft response to report] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Baker PS minute to Mark Addison ("Public Expenditure Per Family") [calculations on education, science, health] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Brian Mower (speaking note for ministers) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Brittan PS (Public Expenditure background note) ["sticking to the plans" essential to economic policy] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Home Office (Autumn Statement) [arrangements for presentation] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Press Handling of Cabinet") ["You really have to present a rigorous face to the world"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [bids by departments to spend more] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [thought they would get a battering in the press] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Spending") [how to present the issue of not having publicly reaffirmed the objective of keeping within the planning totals] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jan 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Robin Butler ("Hoddinot Report/Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Robin Butler ("Public Expenditure - Presentation") [publication "brings together most, if not all, of the bad news about the working out of Government policy"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Treasury (Autumn Statement) [draft speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Jul 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Round") [need to avoid the charge of a u-turn] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure") ["we have not succeeded in presenting the exercise positively"] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement") [market response] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Brittan PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [presentation of GDP to expenditure ratio] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jun 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Chequers Meeting on Public Expenditure, 23 June 1985") [importance of reducing burden of public sector on rest of economy] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 120: Housing") [gulf between spending group and Baker] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public expenditure survey - lessons for the future") [difficult 1984 Survey, prospects for 1985] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Oct 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [spending targets, programmes not yet settled] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure") [need for continuing prudent fiscal policy and restraint in spending] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Jul 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute ("Public Expenditure Presentation") ["the argument that no further cuts can be made because we have already gone too deep is discredited"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 88 Oct 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Andy Bearpark ("Star Chamber") [Chief Secretary bilaterals continuing] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Sep 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security - Income Related Benefits") [freezing child benefit, new Social Security bill] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security") [announcements which might prove controversial] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey") [avoiding new spending commitments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [survey tactics, Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [speaking note for Cabinet] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [agreement with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Sep 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Social Security") [reviews of mobility allowance, long-term invalidity benefit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Star Chamber: Current Position") [resistance has been the stiffest Whitelaw has known] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Star Chamber: Latest Position") [near settlement on all programmes except Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") ["the remaining task is formidable"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Defence") [figures for 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: FCO Programmes") [overseas aid, FCO Diplomatic Wing] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Jun 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Star Chamber 1988") [ministers travelling from overseas] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Star Chamber") [membership of ministers travelling abroad] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Robin Nicholson ("MISC 119 and Public Expenditure Settlement") [reallocation of provision] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Walker PS ("Report of the Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): Gas and Electricity Industries") [agreement reached] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Sep 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("1985 Public Expenditure Exercise") [timetable, composition of Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber, Taking Stock") [key outstanding issues] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Arts and Libraries") [British Library, grant in aid, museums] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Defence Programme") [avoid getting drawn into detailed issues] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Draft Report to Cabinet") [virtually impossible position from which the Chamber were asked to start their work] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Electricity (England and Wales) (ESI)") [still no agreed position paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Meeting with the Prime Minister") [group is in an "exceptionally difficult position"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Overseas Aid (Meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe at 4pm on Thursday, 23 October") [encourage the group to put counter arguments to Howe] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Scotland") [attempt to convince Rifkind he could defend further reductions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Scottish Block") [Rifkind still bidding for very large amounts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Social Security (Meeting with Mr Fowler at 9.30 AM on Tuesday, 21 October") [savings options] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: State of Play") [departmental bids exceeding baseline] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Taking Stock") [the task is not "absolutely hopeless"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jun 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Chequers Cabinet meeting) [public spending priorities] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Whitelaw-Brittan-Jenkin-Biffen-Fowler etc) [government's economic and social policy] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Caroline Ryder minute to MT ("Seminar at Chequers for Cabinet Colleagues to Discuss Public Expenditure") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 88 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("Report on a Review of Charging by the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS)") [case for privatisation needs to be examined positively] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Carolyn Sinclair minute to Paul Gray ("Government Spending on R&D") [important that MT indicates dissatisfaction with proposed savings in agriculture] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 84 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: CBI minute to Andrew Turnbull (public service sector efficiency) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Cecil Parkinson minute to John Major ("UKAEA: External Financing Requirements") [Atomic Energy Authority should be asked to stick to baseline] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Channon PS minute to MacGregor PS ("RDGs") [announcement of delay in payment] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Charles Powell minute to Major PS ("Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [purchasing additional stocks of ammunition] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [exchange rate fluctation and overseas inflation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [impact of exchange rate fluctation and overseas inflation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 86 Sep 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Chief Secretary PS record of conversation (MacGregor-Ridley) [water, PSA, housing] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Conservative Research Department draft ("Public Expenditure White Paper February 16th 1984") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Barclay note to Andrew Turnbull (Public Expenditure Survey) ["MT does not wish to intervene - yet"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Barclay note to MT (chemists' pay) [meeting in favour of legislation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Hobson minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Investment in the Regions") [how to get better value for money out of projects] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 86 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Edwards PS ("Star Chamber") [Welsh programme not yet settled] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("A New Planning Total") [MT to discuss with Lawson] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Autumn Statement: Forecast Fiscal Adjustment") [figure should not be published] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Cash Limits for 1986/87") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Papers on Public Expenditure: Cabinet 23 July") [areas where difficult decisions needed] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure Assumptions") [unemployment] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Mar 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MacGregor PS ("Guidelines for the 1987 Survey") [uplift of the final year of the survey] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MacGregor PS ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [bids for additional reources should be only where they are unavoidable] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MacGregor PS ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [Red Book to be scrapped] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MacGregor PS ("Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn") [MT concerned at prospect of overspend] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Sep 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Moore PS ("PES 1987: Outstanding Social Security Savings Commitments") [earnings rule for widows, pension age] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Moore PS ("Public Expenditure") [abolishing 25p addition for the over 80s would be controversial] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [announcement of delay of payments of Regional Development Grant] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Department of Employment") [Fowler believes he would look foolish if other departments received funding increases] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Mar 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1987 Survey") [baseline for final year of the survey] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [expects some major changes in public spending control system in coming years] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("PES 1987: Social Security Savings") [MT annotation: "We cannot introduce an earnings rule for widows"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure As a Proportion of GDP") [our record is not good] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [heavy burden of the Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [discussion of defence spending] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson may try to lobby MT over differences with MacGregor] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [morale could do with a boost] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [MT note: proposal to abolish 25p addition for the over 80s best left alone] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Star Chamber's work complete] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Star Chamber, sticking to planning totals] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Treasury may have a little room for manoeuvre] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [meeting with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jan 11 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Regional Development Grant") [announcement of delay of payments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Social Security") [child benefit and income-related benefit reductions likely to be most controversial] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Robert Armstrong ("Star Chamber") [proposed members] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Robert Armstrong ("Star Chamber") [proposed membership] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Whitelaw PS ("Star Chamber") [latest work] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Younger PS ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [transferring money from the block grant] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Sep 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [proposed spending cuts] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (meeting with Lawson) [to discuss spending] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 86 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (Star Chamber) [Treasury's marching orders] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Sep 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (Walker's bid for additional money) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts and John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [could be "political pressures to undo tough decisions"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The Pay Factor for Next Year") [3 percent increase in public sector pay] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Nov 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Asset Sales and the Reserve") [sale of British Gas] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Expenditure on Scotland and Northern Ireland") ["snouts well and truly in the public expenditure trough"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [figures on spending growth, taxation] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [hopes for the round going smoothly] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Treasury "has no further fallback position"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") ["pretty pathetic that Government running costs have risen faster than inflation"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Social Security Programme") [Fowler committed on total size of savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 May 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Williams letter to John MacGregor ("Public Expenditure Survey Committee - 1987 Survey Department 013 Commonwealth War Graves Commission") [additional resources for the programme] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: David Young minute to John Major ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [additional bids] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Sep 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Department of Employment note to David Norgrove ("DE Measures and Unemployment") [conditions for real and sustained employment growth] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [content with proposals] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey (Local Authorities): Police Manpower") [need for substantial increase manpower programme] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Aug 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey") [prisons, crime prevention, safer cities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Apr 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985") [effect of proposals on territorial departments] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Jan 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Edwards PS minute to Lawson PS (Welsh economy) [background briefing] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Foreign Office briefing (funds to reduce Soviet influence in Africa) [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [difficulties departments face discussing running costs with Treasury] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure Survey: Conditions of Service of the Diplomatic Service") [effectiveness of Diplomatic Service under threat] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey") [how proposals affect foreign policy objectives] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure - FCO Programmes") [non-military parts of FCO expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Guise minute to MT ("Scientists' Reactions to Autumn Statement") [warm welcome compared to criticism in recent years] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Younger minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [compensation to Scottish block] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Younger minute to John MacGregor ("PES 1985: Housing") [impact of Baker's proposals] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Younger minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [rating burden, penalties] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Younger minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [terms used in draft] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: George Younger minute to Peter Rees ("Scottish Block") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Heseltine PS minute to Lawson PS (Public Expenditure Green Paper) [proposed changes to draft on defence] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Howe PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("FCO Expenditure") [record of meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC) 106 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programmes") [demands on FCO resources] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("FCO Expenditure: Sterling and Overseas Inflation") [Howe does not accept he shoudl start implementing reductions in programmes] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [cuts to overseas services] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [Howe will not make further adjustments to FCO programmes] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Hurd PS minute to Rees PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Sep 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jack Cunningham letter to MT (Social Security) [Community Charge and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jim Prior minute to Nigel Lawson (Public Expenditure Green Paper) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jim Prior minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey") [Northern Ireland social security programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jim Prior minute to Peter Rees ("The Northern Ireland Block") [unwise to undermine the block arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Gummer minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [agrees with Ridley's views] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Housing Support Grant Increase: Offsetting Savings") [increased spending a result of changed economic assumptions] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: AEG 1986-87") [can't accept proposal to limit penalties at outturn] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to John Major ("PES 1988: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food") [pressing need to strengthen research programmes] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("1986 Public Expenditure Survey") [university pay, city technical colleges] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("New Towns' Receipts") [modest increase] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("Public Expenditure Survey: Housing") [provision and allocation] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1987 Survey") [offset small real reductions by improvements in efficiency and productivity] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [additional bids and options for reductions, survey report, running costs, contingent liabilities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [additional bids, options for reductions, survey report, running costs, contingent liabilities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [procedure, running costs, contingent liabilities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [running costs, contingent liabilities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [agreement on all programmes except housing] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Sep 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [asset sales, running costs] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn") [prospect of an overspend] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Electricity") [external financing arrangements] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 88 Oct 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Report on a Review of Charging by the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS)") [possibility for privatisation, new charges] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals cause great difficulty] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales") [difficulties with requests for compensation for English overspending] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Norman Fowler ("MISC 120: Health and Personal Social Services") [settlement of programme] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Apr 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Tom King ("Guidelines for the 1987 Survey") [block budget ground rules will form basis of handling of survey] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Willie Whitelaw ("MISC 120: Energy") [construction of Sizewell] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 88 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major and George Younger minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [three-year settlement not to be reopened unless a significant change in economic conditions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jun 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Douglas Hurd ("Public Expenditure Survey (Local Authorities): Police Manpower") [disappointed question of manpower reopened] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("1988 Survey: Social Security Benefits") [bids are substantial, issues with disability, housing benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Public Expenditure") [Family Practitioner Services, 25p addition for the over 80s] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Income Related Benefit Rates") [cannot exempt income-related benefits from usual survey process] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Commitments") [additional savings still needed] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Savings Commitments") [anti-fraud drive] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Health and Personal Social Services") [review and reduce bids] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Health") [agreements reached] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Sep 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Ken Clarke (1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [programme bids, running costs] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Oct 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Kenneth Baker ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Education") [universities, science, AIDS research] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Kenneth Baker ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Education and Science") [polytechnics, universities, science, running costs] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Sep 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids") [summaries of departmental bids] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids") [departmental summaries] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Star Chamber") [party conference references to spending] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Autumn Statement: Our Net Payments to Community Institutions") [final projections] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Conduct of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [survey timetable] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [dates of debate on public spending, Autumn Statement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [proposed changes to presentation timetable] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [baselines, bids and options, running costs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("Science and Technology") [settlements are sound and an effective basis for enhancing research] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jun 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("1988 Survey: Churches") [political significance of demonstrating support for churches] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("1988 Survey: Churches") [spending on church buildings] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Norman Fowler ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Employment") [large bids difficult to justify with improved labour market] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Patrick Mayhew ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Crown Prosecution Service") [compromise on manpower savings] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Peter Walker ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Wales") [impact of settlements on Welsh block] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Oct 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Richard Luce ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Arts and Libraries") [agreements reached] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Major minute to Richard Luce ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Office of Arts and Libraries and OMCS") [agreements on libraries, museums] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Public spending: John Moore letter to MT (thanks for her help resolving spending quarrel) ["You were right to say I was letting myself get a little trapped in a departmental view!"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 87 Feb 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [manpower targets] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Aug 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("1987 Survey: Social Security - Rates of Income Related Benefits") [process of consultation with local authorities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("1988 Survey: Social Security Benefits") [proposed changes to housing benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("PES 1987: Outstanding Social Security Savings Commitments") [package of savings measures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("PES 1988: Social Security Benefits and DHSS Administration") [proposal for increased spending on benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1988 (Local Authorities): Police Manpower") [demand for high priority services] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Survey 1987: Income-Related Benefit Rates") [need for adequate funds if to hold the line on the social fund] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Commitments") [savings, child benefit uprating] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major (Public Expenditure Survey) [programme of Specific Grants for social security] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Moore minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [primary care services, dental services, 25p addition for over 80s] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Sep 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to Andrew Turnbull (DTI spending figures) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to Andrew Turnbull (Public Expenditure Green Paper draft) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Cabinet: Budget Background") ["dangerous to assume that you can judge a suitable overall level of public capital expenditure"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Funding Meeting") [National Savings, gilt-edged funding, equity sale] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1985-86") ["some of the bids may prove to be irresistible"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [problems in the assessment of needs in Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Gas Prices") [Treasury wants to put prices up] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [manpower targets, nationalised industries, contracting out, local authority spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Mar 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [examples of waste and mismanagement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [need to "get away from the reputation for endless cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("The Pharmaceutical Industry") [control over the drugs budget] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (1985 Public Expenditure Survey) [departments should be dissuaded from putting forward damaging cuts] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (Chequers seminar) [main results] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Mar 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (Keith Joseph's proposals) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jul 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) ["People are confused about the central aim of economic strategy"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) [better way of negotiating with departments] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Redwood minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure") [Policy Unit involvement in survey round] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Wakeham minute to Ken Clarke ("Publicising Government Grants") ["the Government does not get credit for these grants"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Wakeham minute to MT ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [changes to sessional cycle of debates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Wybrew minute to David Barclay ("Energy and Expenditure Savings") [energy demand, capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy - Contribution to Public Expenditure Savings") [British Gas, elecricity industry] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy and Expenditure Savings") [aim for £2.2bn of savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jopling PS minute to David Barclay ("ACARD Report: New Opportunities in Manufacturing") [application to food manufacturing] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 86 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Jopling PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [percentage change for agriculture, fisheries, food] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture R and D Expenditure") [options for reducing spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [teachers' pay] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on education] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (capital stock) [how to "avoid storing up trouble for ourselves"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Peter Rees ("1984 Survey: Guidelines") [options for spending cuts] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to John Major (Autumn Statement) [allocations to health authorities] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Dec 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Publicising Government Grants") ["where the Government is prepared to make support available it should take credit for doing so"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John MacGregor (New Towns' receipts) [disposals are running well] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 88 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John Major ("Education, Science and Arts Committee Report: DES Expenditure Plans") [draft response] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Apr 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John Major ("The New Planning Total and Financial Reporting to Parliament") [local authority spending, expenditure white paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Autumn Statement: Water Authorities") [need to carry out policies with minimum trouble] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Housing") [extent of housing problems] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: King PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on economic growth] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute ("Chancellor's TCSC Appearance: Opening Statement") [Autumn Statement] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Jan 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Cabinet: 9 February") [to discuss economic position, capital and current expenditure, public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Monthly Note on Public Sector Borrowing") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Press Handling after Cabinet") ["message should be business as usual"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Feb 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Briefing") [questions and answers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson note on electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: Energy") [how to secure Walker's agreement on savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jul 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (Cabinet discussion) [economic prospects, expenditure survey] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (capital expenditure on construction work) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (economic assumptions for public spending 1985-86 - 1987-88) [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (Green Paper on public expenditure and taxation) [inter-departmental clearance needed] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Jan 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Anson ("Preparing for the 1988 Survey") [first draft, timetable] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Channon PS ("RDGs") [public spending provision for regional incentives] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell ("Fiscal Policies in Other Major Countries") [latest budget plans] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgorve (economic assumptions) [unemployment, pay] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 86 Oct 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Autumn Statement: Additional Briefing") [growth in planned spending, spending trends] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Briefing for Public Expenditure Cabinet") [speaking note] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet 30 October: Public Expenditure") [timing of discussions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("MoD Forward Purchases") [foreign currency requirement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 May 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Monthly Note on Public Sector Borrowing") [provisional estimates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Papers for Public Expenditure Cabinet: 23 July") [have to face up to difficult decisions in many areas] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [bids are beyond what can be afforded] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [public spending should take a declining share of n ational income] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [planning total will be undershot due to housing sales proceeds] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Survey Prospects") [overall picture, issues outstanding] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove (Autumn Statement) [publication of printed statement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove (Economic Assumptions) [unemployment, average earnings, GDP deflator, RPI] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS ("Autumn Statement") [presentation arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS (Public Expenditure Survey) [press notices] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to MacGregor PS ("Autumn Statement") [draft oral statement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Major PS ("Autumn Statement: Oral Statement: Chancellor's Draft, Second Half") [keeping public spending as close as possible to planning totals] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 86 Oct 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Mark Addison ("Infrastructure Spending") [sector by sector figures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Mark Addison ("Public Expenditure Per Family") [reservations about the figures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("1988 Survey") [getting below the tax burden inherited] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Autumn Statement") [timetable, arrangements for presentation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chancellor's Paper for Cabinet on 14 July") [MT anotation: "this is much too complacent"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [availability of Treasury memo] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jan 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Government Motion for Autumn Statement Debate, 14 January") [wording of motion] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [cannot afford bids on anything like the scale proposed] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (Public Expenditure Cabinet) [tax cuts, tax revenues] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Apr 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Robin Butler (Public Expenditure Survey) ["a difficult Survey is in prospect"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Oct 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("Timing of the Autumn Statement") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lawson PS note to David Norgrove (Autumn Statement) [revised draft] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Cameron minute to John Major ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service") [department's financial needs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Jan 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Cockfield minute to Peter Rees (Public Expenditure White Paper) [presentation of capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Gowrie minute to Peter Rees ("1985 Public Expenditure Survey") [concerned at delay in finalising guidelines] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Gowrie minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey") [aim of reducing cost of administering programmes] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Mar 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Hailsham minute to John MacGregor ("Guidelines for the 1987 Survey") [relationship between pay settlement, running costs and policy objectives] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Hailsham minute to Peter Rees ("Running Costs Targets") [courts administration] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Lord Young minute to Tom King ("Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [need for a wide evaluation of schemes] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 88 Oct 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Luce PS minute to John Major PS ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: OMCS") [funding for next steps training] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Sep 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1985 Survey: Draft Paper for Cabinet") [question of running costs needs to be handled with care] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Dec 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [ministers to be given more time to consider the draft] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jan 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("3 October Cabinet") [speaking note on restraining spending] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 86 Nov 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cumulating Costs") [quoting spending levels and charges] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 120: Position Paper") [position reached after bilaterals with ministers] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jan 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("Publication of the 1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [presentation plans, press engagement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Dec 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to Tebbit PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [continuing search for efficiency] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Macgregor PS minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [how to minimise press speculation] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS note to David Norgrove (1987 Public Expenditure White Paper) [lines to take] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS note to David Norgrove (Public Expenditure Survey) [departmental briefs] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MacGregor PS note to John Wakeham (housing programme) [private sector provision] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to David Norgrove ("1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jan 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to David Norgrove ("1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [estimated outturn figures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cash Limits for 1986-87") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Cash Limits for 1988-89") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Paper for Public Expenditure Cabinet") [agreements reached] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Speech to the PEWP Debate") [changes to NHS Review section] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [dates of debate on public spending] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [size of bids puts objectives at risk] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jan 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Letter to Backbenchers") ["keeping public spending under control does not mean arbitrary savings"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Publication of 1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John MacGregor ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [concern at restrictions on running costs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("PES") [inner city deprivation projects] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1988 - Forestry Commission") [additional bid] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 87 Oct 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore (Social Security) [Community Charge liabilites and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Ken Clarke ("Publicising Government Grants") [financial assistance to industry, regions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Publication of the 1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [difficulty in presenting delay of Regional Development Grant payments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Mark Addison minute to Moore PS ("Public Expenditure Per Family") [calculations for family of four] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Mark Addison minute to Moore PS ("Public Expenditure Per Family") [common base for figures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Dec 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [MoD manpower figures] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985") [problems with cash planning] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Running Cost Targets") [service personnel pay, manpower control] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") [spending cuts not consistent with government policy on defence] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [service pay] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): The Defence Programme") [spending settlement for 1985-88] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Survey") [latest proposed figures are an improvement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("The Defence Programme") [objections to decreases in spending 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [proposed cuts in spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [agricultural R&D, redundancy costs] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 88 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Moore PS minute to Mark Addison ("Public Expenditure Per Family") [premise for figures is highly artificial] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MT letter to David Stevens (Dartford Bridge) [private sector financing] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: MT minute to Norman Tebbit (DTI spending) [position on departmental programmes] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") ["an important question of equity"] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 85 Nov 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [request for compensation] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [control of running costs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [attention to Welsh circumstances] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jul 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Peter Rees ("1985 PES Report: DTI Chapter") [reduction in regional spending] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to Andrew Turnbull ("MISC 106: Agriculture and ADAS") [report on ADAS] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jul 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to MT ("Public Spending: How to Hold the Baseline") [if the Treasury gives any more ground, it will jeopardise scope for tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Sep 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John MacGregor ("Driving Examiners") [no public expenditure implications of proposals] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [running costs are biting hard] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nicholas Scott minute to John Wakeham (parliamentary announcements) [child benefit, income-related benefits] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Autumn Statement: Forecast Fiscal Adjustment") [should not be published] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 May 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure 1984-85") [latest figures add up to "a worrying picture, particularly so early in the financial year"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure 1984-85") [local authority finance, electricity price] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [latest changes to Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") [aim of applying a progressive squeeze] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to Peter Walker (""Public Expenditure White Paper") [impact of miners' strike on figures for 1984-85] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 88 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (child benefit) [study into restructuring of benefit] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jun 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Nigel Wicks minute to Robin Butler ("Chairman of the Ministerial Commitee on Public Expenditure (Star Chamber)") [Parkinson to chair] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [Diplomatic Service conditions of service] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Diplomatic Service conditions of service] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Sep 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [over-provision for Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Oct 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Major) [defence, education, aid, Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 Lobby Briefing (publications, Yugoslavia, environment/local government debate, US elections) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 minute ("Press Line after Cabinet") [commitment to control of public spending] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Biffen) [need to show strength and coherence on public spending] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Joseph) [standards in schools, teachers' pay] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [press line to take after Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [public spending priorities] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Brittan-Rees-Armstrong-Middleton) [difficulty acheiving goal of holding expenditure constant] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-MacGregor) [Star Chamber decisions, market response] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 88 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Major) [a very difficult round was in prospect] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Parkinson-Major-Butler) [likely there would be a need for a Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 84 Sep 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Rees) [departmental programme savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Tebbit-Rees-Butler-Turnbull) [DTI spending programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Walker-Younger-Tebbit-Armstrong) [Lawson facing a difficult position on public spending; electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rees-Bailey-Redwood) [over-provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not in Wales] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [gas and electricity industries and spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Lawson-Rees) [FCO spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Heseltine) [provision for Defence for 197-88] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-MacGregor-Armstrong) [Scotland, social security, health, overseas aid, electricity] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Oct 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-MacGregor-Griffiths) [right to put a large share of blame on local authority mismanagement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees) [social services, agriculture, defence] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Younger) [territorial blocks] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [control of running costs rather than manpower numbers] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on social security] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [reservations about the baseline] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Peter Rees (Public Expenditure Survey) [proposed baseline and timetable] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT ("DTI Expenditure") [illustrative charts] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [budget agreed with Rees] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [efforts to reduce spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey: Department of Trade and Industry") ["I do not regard your proposals as realistic"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: OECD Secretary-General note ("Ministerial Conference on The Longer-Term Performance of OECD Economies: Challenges Facing Governments") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: DES") [MT anotation: "We cannot add further to the burden"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Oct 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Scotland: Local Authority Spending") [Younger "is trying his usual tactics"] [declassified Jul 2015] |
| 84 Feb 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Nigel Lawson (capital and public expenditure) [need for "cost-effective modernisation, maintenance and replacement of the public services capital stock"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 May 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment") [job creation not the whole purpose of Jenkin's programmes] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [problems of social and economic deprivation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Capital Spending") [when to publish figures] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees (Public Expenditure White Paper) [presentation of capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Robin Ibbs ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [wants a policy and programme review, not an "efficiency" exercise] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 87 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Channon minute to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [placing greater reliance on control of running costs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Cabinet Office ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [individual spending programmes] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Major PS ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Major PS ("Autumn Statement") [announcement arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Apr 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Major PS ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [dates of debate on public spending] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Apr 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Major PS ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [debate in parliament] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [bilateral with Lawson] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [ministers' bids looked extremely high] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [charging for services] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Autumn Statement Cabinet: 1 November") [new planning totals] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Cabinet: Public Expenditure") [speaking order] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jul 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Papers for Cabinet on 14 July") [MT anotation: "In my view the Chancellor is not nearly serious enough"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [documents to be submitted to parliament] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Financial Reporting to Parliament") [MT anotation: "The whole Budget stance will be questioned if we have a debate while the Finance Bill is still before the House"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [timetable arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Handling of Public Expenditure at Cabinet: Meeting with the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary") [prospects for departmental bids] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting of E(ST)") [Chief Secretary has concluded spending bilateral negotiations] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Child Benefit") [proposal not to uprate] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Public Expenditure: Monday 3 October") [focus on planning total and spending to GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Negotiations") [health, territorial departments, Star Chamber candidates] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [content of the forward programme] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [agreement reached on Wales] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [arrangements for Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [transport, Scottish budgets settled] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Meeting with the Chancellor and Chief Secretary") [defence, transport, social security] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Feb 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Wybrew ("Private Finance in Public Expenditure") [paper for seminar] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Paul Gray note for the file (Gray-Major PS) [publication of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Martin minute to Dominic Morris ("Economic Summit 1991") [spending on the summit] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Middleton minute to John Boreham ("Briefing on Monthly PSBR Press Notice") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe ("FCO Expenditure Problems") ["the overriding consideration must be the Government's capacity to swallow" additional spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe (Public Expenditure White Paper) [capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("Territorial Blocks: Needs Assessment") [draft terms of reference] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("The Scottish Block") [block running at a level in excess of need] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Feb 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Ian Gow ("Sale and Leaseback and Interest Swaps Water Authorities") [water authorities' wish to act commercially] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Jim Prior ("The Northern Ireland Block") [block running at a level in excess of need] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Jan 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Keith Joseph ("Agricultural R and D Expenditure") [possible redundancies] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Lord Cockfield ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Part 1, Table 1.13") [public sector capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Michael Jopling ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1984 Public Expenditure Survey Guidelines") [setting the baseline] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1984 Public Expenditure Survey") ["this is going to be a difficult operation"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [defence manpower and capital] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey Guidelines") [facing "another tough Survey"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Aug 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Cabinet on Sunday, 23 June: Public Expenditure Priorities") [the task ahead] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("MISC 106: State of Play") [progress made in "what we knew would be an extremely difficult task"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Feb 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and the Fiscal Stance") [proposed schemes for asset sales becoming more complex] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1984-85") [how to deal with expected overshoot] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1984-85") [overspend on local authority capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [over-provision in the block budgets for Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [should look at objectives of a spending programme to see if "we can devote substantially less resources to it"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey and Running Costs Targets") [costing of options for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") ["this year's Survey is proving particularly difficult"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [need to establish a baseline for increases and decreases] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 85 Apr 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [need to establish a baseline] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Gas Prices") [MT does not think proposed study would achieve anything] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Review") ["our policy is to keep public expenditure broadly stable in real terms"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") [applying a progressive squeeze] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Feb 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [review of health expenses] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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