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PDF 79 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Channon letter to Lord Cockfield (Review of Statistical Services) ["I have... asked CSD officials to explore quickly... how best such a review can be conducted. Proposals on this will then be put to the Prime Minister"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to CSD ("Review of Statistical Services") [comments on draft outline note] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute: Priestley to Allen ("Review of Statistical Services") [Derek Rayner, John Boreham record of conversation: oversight of the Review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Channon minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services") ["I believe it is now time for a general review"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Rayner Project: Review of Government Statistical Services in the Departments of Trade and Industry) [copy of report & key sections summarised] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services") ["welcome the idea of a systematic review and I would think it important that studies in individual departments should be supplemented by a central assessment of costs and priorities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Civil Service Department minute to No.10 ("Cabinet: 31 January") [reviews of government statistical activities and of procedure for handling leaks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Review of Government Statistical Services: Report on the Central Statistical Office") ["I should be grateful to know that you are content for the study team to consult the Cabinet Office Staff Side now... There is clearly a risk that the proposals will leak from the Staff Side, and that a campaign will be built up against the proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner minute to Lord Soames ("Review of Statistical Services") [handling of Report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Rayner Report on the Central Statistical Office") ["You will see that Sir John Boreham would like to continue certain work which the study team recommended should be discontinued"; CSO use of Prestel/costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Derek Rayner, Robert Armstrong, John Boreham) ["Rayner Report on the Central Statistical Office"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("Review of Government Statistical Services") [recommendations on handling & implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Review of Government Statistical Services) [Rayner advice on handling of the report & implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Central Statistical Officer input-output tables) [MT "would like to have some idea of the extent to which this material is drawn on in preparation of papers which come to her"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Efficiency Unit (Review of Government Statistical Services) [circulation; presentation to Parliament; implementation/guidelines; statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) [potential savings; Central Statistical Office; management; implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) [role of the Director of the Central Statistical Office; implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to Department of Industry ("Prestel") [MT "thought that, as there was no strong... [Central Statistical Office] interest in staying in Prestel, the Cabinet Office should not bear the cost of the CSO service to Prestel... consistent with the Government's policies for promoting the development of information technology... the Department of Industry should bear the cost"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office minute to Departmental Heads of Statistics Divisions ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [preparation of progress report on response to Rayner recommendations & follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office letter to Home Office ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [response to, and implemetation of, Rayner Report recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Use of Input-Output Tables") [advice on merits/demerits] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Soames minute to MT ("Review of the Government's Statistical Services") [findings; publication/White Paper; implementation of Rayner Efficiency reports recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Lord Soames PS (Review of the Government's Statistical Services) [publication; timing to coincide with Efficiency White Paper; civil service dispute] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT minute to Ministers in Charge of Departments ("Survey Control") ["Statistical surveys cost money... We must ensure we get full value": proposals "to encourage better (and perhaps fewer) surveys"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Walker ("Proposed Merger of Family Expenditure Survey and National Food Survey") ["My main concern... is that confidence in the retail prices index must not be jeopardised... Accordingly I do not propose to authorise the merger"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT letter to Director of Central Statistical Office (Review of Government Statistical Services) ["I am particularly delighted with the excellent progress on the implementation of Sir Derek Rayner's Review"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Central Statistical Office) ["in trying to get changes made in a levy return form... we have lost a year"; MT shares concern about CSO performance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Government Statistical Services: Annual Report 1982-83") [overview; issues of note; advice against publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT letter to Director of Central Statistical Office (Government Statistical Services: Annual Report 1982-83) [Written Statement to Parliament; "I should like to congratulate you and your staff on the splendid progress it records"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Ingham minute to Barclay (Integrity of Government Statistics: Publication) [MT rejects case for circulating advice to Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]
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