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PDF 83 Mar 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Younger PS (Policy Statement & Scrutiny Report on Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools in Scotland) [clearance of draft Written Answer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: The Scrutiny Programme") [proposal for Welsh Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Rayner Scrutiny of HMI in England and Wales") [revised draft Written Answer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Clive Priestley") [departure as Head of Rayner Unit & choice of successor] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Rayner Programme") [MT asked to approve Rayner Unit draft responses to Departments in regard to 1983 programme, including scrutinies in which she will take a special interest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Howe concurs with MT request to bring Treasury/CCTA review into scrutiny programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Tom King minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983") [Department of Environment proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Review of Personnel Work") [MT agrees to request for report's publication with her endorsement, with the caveat that the report's recommendations on poor performance/inefficiency are addressed as a priority] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (scrutiny of excessive copying) ["Partly as a result of these findings, we have included in the 1983 programme of efficiency work a review of support services for adminstration"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Baroness Young letter to Whitelaw (Review of Personnel Work) [implementation of review recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General letter to Rayner Unit ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") ["we are not a very suitable candidate for a scrutiny exercise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Baroness Young letter to Fowler ("Incentives to Improve Efficiency") [pilot schemes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 ("The Scrutiny Programme: Forensic Science Service") [findings & recommendations; decisions; Rayner comments; proposed action; MT concerns regarding potential constraint on police powers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 ("The Scrutiny Programme: Customs Attendance") [findings & recommendations; Ministers' decisions; Rayner comments; proposed action; publicity] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to Cabinet Office ("Rayner Unit and Management Efficiency Group, MPO") ["This minute identifies our current priorities and the work we shall be engaged with in the coming months"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Jenkin minute to MT ("PSA Advisory Board") ["I should be grateful for your agreement for the Board to continue its work"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work - MPO's priorities") [publication of interdepartmental review report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Gowrie ("Personnel Work - MPO's priorities") [performance-related pay; unified grading; cost] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Personnel Work in the Civil Service) [Patrick Jenkin "proposes that we should invite... senior managers from the private sector to look at Civil Service personnel management"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Aug 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Ian Gow letter to Peter Rees ("Property Repayment Services (PRS)") [interim report of the Inter-Departmental Committee; full report attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Aug 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("Property Repayment Scheme") [interim report of the Inter-Departmental Committee: feedback from Robin Ibbs, with MT annotation, & Cabinet Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rees letter to Gow ("Property Repayment Services (PRS)") [interim report of the Inter-Departmental Committee: recommendations & feedback from Departments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (improving efficiency in the public sector) ["Overall... I do not think that the public sector... has yet... [accepted] the importance of value for money"; MT annotation: "I am simply delighted with these proposals" - requests meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT ("Publication of Rayner Scrutiny Reports on the Customs Attendance (1981) and the Processing of Customs Import Entries (1982)") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting With Sir Robin Ibbs") [achieiving greater efficiency in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Ian Beesley, Ferdinand Mount, John Redwood) [achieving greater efficiency in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("The Scrutiny Programme: the General Employment Service") ["This is a scrutiny in which Lord Rayner took a particular interest on your behalf... This service exists to help employers fill vacancies and jobseekers find employment"; results of the scrutiny] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Contracting out Catering at the Civil Service College, Sunningdale") ["This particular bit of "privatisation" will save us about 45 directly employed staff and about £90,000 a year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Review of Civil Service Catering") ["Barney Hayhoe seeks your agreement to a statement"; outside contractors; trading fund; additional investment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Value for Money - the Ibbs Initiative") ["What we now need is a detailed system of monitoring and reporting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (National Audit Office study of efficiency reviews conducted since 1979) ["intention is to give Parliament an independent account of the contributions which the scrutinies and reviews have made to value for money"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Ian Beesley, John Redwood, Robin Butler) [improving efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 ("Overdue Scrutiny Decisions") [MT "asked... for a list of important scrutinies where recommendations have not been implemented... The most urgent are those in the NHS"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (interdepartmental security procedures) ["use of commerical guard forces to protect classified information"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 (""Times" article on NHS scrutinies") [context of publication; latest position on implementation of recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Efficiency Studies of Common Activities") ["The work to date has been successful... to ensure that the impetus is sustained... departments to set up joint studies with MPO"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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