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PDF 81 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Director of CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS programme of work for 1982") ["You asked that I should suggest a programme... that would enable us to contribute to the development of Government strategy for the next five years"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work for 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Armstrong, Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work, 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("CPRS work programme 1982") [details] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to CPRS ("CPRS studies on unemployment and the black economy") [MT request for Treasury to be involved] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Aug 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (CPRS: future work programme) [study into reasons for continuing expansion of public sector] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Aug 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) ["CPRS work programme"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Walters minute to MT ("CPRS Unemployment Study") ["virtually all their proposals have appeared before and have been extensively discussed... the proposals... are not at all incisive and lack precision"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Strategic meeting: Monday at 1800") ["an opportunity for the CPRS to hear direct from you your thought about the gaps in policywhich need to be plugged over the next year or two... morale... probably bruised by the mauling their paper received at Cabinet"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS minute to No.10 ("CPRS work programme") [MT unhappy with proposals on trade unions and pensions] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [work programme] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("CPRS report on the State Monopolies") [MT critical of report; Policy Unit recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (CPRS remit) [MT "asked me to think about possible new tasks... There ought to be a central capacity to take a view on choices between one programme and another"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [CPRS papers; Policy Unit minute identifying shortcomings of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("CPRS study of the Unions") [advice on how to respond to CPRS proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford letter to No.10 (Paper for the Manchester Statistical Society) [Professor John Ashworth, former Chief Scientist within CPRS: thoughts on crisis management & the functions of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS") [papers covering staffing/work programme; advice to MT to meet with John Sparrow & Robert Armstrong; MT: "For what they are doing, they have far too many staff. The sooner we cut down the better"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("CPRS") [work programme; staffing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, John Sparrow) ["Central Policy Review Staff": work programme; staffing. MT "not happy at present about the way in which the CPRS was working"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [reduction in CPRS staff] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS staffing plans") [reduction] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("CPRS report on State Monopolies") [main recommendations; Policy Unit minute criticising report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [papers on education, pensions & intellectual property rights; MT requests to see drafts] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [MT rules out any further long-term work] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Machinery of Government at the centre") [future of CPRS; MPO; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Machinery of Government at the centre": closure of CPRS; amalgamation of MPO with Cabinet Office; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The CPRS") [advice to MT to inform Cabinet that CPRS to be closed down & to follow up with press announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS") [press Q+A on disbandment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS letter to MT (closure of the CPRS) [Robert Young protests & requests meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to CPRS (disbandment of CPRS) [logistical considerations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS work: publication") [MT proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS report on Higher Education") [background; outline & attached report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Handling of work on nationalised industries following disbandment of the Central Policy Review Staff") [measures taken & next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
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