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PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 letter to Lord Gowrie PS ("Direct Entry Principal Competition") [MT "not persuaded of the case... this year... [agrees with] the removal of internal barriers to promotion... would be grateful for a report ... as soon as possible on how more general progress might be made in this area"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("Financial Management in Government Departments") [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Royal Dockyards") [proposals on commercialisation: timescale for discussion; industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Walker ("Multi-Department Review of Accommodation") ["charging departments rent and rates"; "the efficiency of energy use by departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("DHSS dispute at Newcastle") [views on proposed involvement of ACAS] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (management and efficiency in the civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to 'The Times') [draft reply for clearance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Ethnic Monitoring in Government Departments") [background to reports; PQ/publication/media] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Senior Open Structure Reviews") ["you expressed a particular interest in the method... [and] frequency of reviews of Open Structure posts... what we propose to do to meet this commitment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Efficiency Unit minute to MT ("Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments") [Peter Rees unhappy with Robin Ibbs proposal for shift of emphasis towards budget-based management, fearing too much power being delegated to line managers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Unified Grading") [progress report & next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Training for Senior Management") ["you commented that [the Open Structure Course]... was unlikely to succeed unless eligible staff had had suitable training earlier in their careers. The [attached] report suggests a sensible programme for the development of... management potential"; MT not convinced] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") ["ie the removal of grading and pay barriers to the most efficient lateral deployment of staff... Good progress has been made... a successful... reform"; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work Action Programme: Report on Progress, mid-1984") ["last July, you asked me... [for] a progress report after a year... the report records very encouraging [progress]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Civil Service College: Next Steps on Repayment") [funding for developmental training] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") [Keith Joseph's concern about implications for staff in the Research Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to Efficiency Unit ("Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments") ["For our meeting with... [MT], it will... be enough to say that we have agreed to set up, as part of our monitoring of departments' progress with budgeting control, a more concentrated study with a few departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (resignations from the civil service) [public sector/private sector disparity of pay increases for management staff] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Consultancy, Inspection and Review (CIR) Services") ["value for money... whether staff inspection staff (560) should retain their independence to advise top managements and the Treasure, as Treasury would prefer, or whether they should advise line managers, as Robin Ibbs proposes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rees, Gowrie, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Peter Middleton) ["Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Scrutiny of internal talent: promotion blockages") ["You wanted to be sure we were doing all we could to bring on able junior staff"; progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Civil service numbers") [latest statistics] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Keith Joseph ("Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") [Research Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute (internal): Barclay to Press Office ("Consultancy Inspection and Review Report") [publication & foreword] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT (Performance Related Pay and Unified Grading) [summary of a minute from Lord Gowrie] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Inspection and Consultancy Services in Departments") ["To ensure co-ordination... [Lord Gowrie and I] propose to set up a small joint unit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Top Management Programme") ["The attached report describes progress since [April]... we now need to inform Parliament... should be presented positively as part of our strategy to improve management in the Civil Service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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