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PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Presentation of Economic and Social Policy: Social Security Review") [findings & recommendations: general speaking note, circulated to Cabinet; summary of Green Paper; Fowler statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Selling the Benefit Reviews") [key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Social Security Review: Public Service Pensions - Part-Timers") ["I am concerned that the proposal... could add significantly to local authority current expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 letter to Department of Health and Social Security (Social Security Review) [party held by MT for members of the Review team] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to MT (Social Security Review: uprating) [Fowler statement to Parliament; Cabinet discussion] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Young ("Study of Tax and Social Security Systems") [addressing Lord Young's proposal for combined tax/benefits system] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Uprating") [draft of Fowler statement to Parliament & summary of key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Social Services: Ridley letter to Fowler ("DHSS Local Office Project") [demarcation of single & competitive tendering for computers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Social Security Review") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Ingham, Patrick Jenkin, Lord Gowrie, Tony Newton: publicity measures to widen coverage of consultation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Social Security Review") [Hector Laing proposal on two-tier bargaining & early retirement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Reform of Social Security") ["progress and next steps following the... Green Paper"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute to Langdon ("Reform of Social Security") [consultation; White Paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Networks") [study team's terms of reference; proposed timetable] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Unemployment Benefit Offices") [argument for rationlisation of UBO/DHSS offices; MT of view that issue has already been addressed by Rayner review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MacGregor ("PES 1985: Savings from the Review") [breakdown of proposed savings and gainers/losers analysis, in advance of meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [MT request for study to be set in hand urgently, to consider respective reform proposals jointly] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Joint DE/DHSS Study of Local Office Networks: Previous Studies into a "One-Office Network" for Unemployment and Other Social Security Benefits") [confirmation of MT's recollection of Rayner review; case for fresh review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Reviews and the Survey") ["I attach as agreed a background note on the position on social security expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey and Social Security") [approach to Cabinet; composition of the Star Chamber; meeting with Fowler to discuss timetable & identify savings; MISC III/Star Chamber handling of social security reviews] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: David Norgrove minute to MT (Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks) [MT agrees to No.10 stipulating that Efficiency Unit should be involved in the study] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Expenditure") [Fowler "trying to escape the tough cuts... We didn't just want structural changes for their own sake; he gets his reforms if the taxpayer saves some money"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Green Paper on Reform of Social Security; Public Expenditure Discussions) [MT meeting with Fowler] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: MacGregor minute to MT ("Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks") [terms of reference; timetable; potential savings; grading & pay levels; consultation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to Fowler PS ("Joint Department of Employment and DHSS Study of Local Office Networks") [MT's request that study should be turned into a scrutiny, with the help & advice of Efficiency Unit & a designated official to be placed in charge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: David Norgrove minute to MT (Meeting with Norman Fowler: Social Security Savings) [need to press for clarification of DHSS figures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler: Social Security Savings") ["The Treasury and DHSS are arguing about how much was promised when by whom"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [Ingham, Norgrove: presentation of the payment of arrears of housing benefit to Liverpool and other authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd letter to Tony Newton (Green Paper: enforcement of requirements under the new pension arrangements) [Hurd proposes "a new sort of relationship (between employers and pension providers)... subject to the oversight of your inspectors. I would hope that on those grounds the powers could be defended in the face of any objections there may be"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Treasury minute to MacGregor ("Social Security Reviews and 1985 Survey: Mr Fowler's 2 October Package") [implications of Fowler proposals; tactics to be adopted in Treasury discussions with Fowler; request for guidance on how to handle Fowler's forthcoming paper to MISC III] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Review of Social Security") [draft MISC III paper: "What is not at all clear... is the public expenditure and PSBR implications"; timing of implementation of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute (internal) ("Social Security") [gainers & losers from Green Paper proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report on the Review of Social Security") [Green Paper proposals; consultation reactions; proposed modifications; main issues; pensions; other social security policy proposals; timing; interaction with local government finance proposals; future processing; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What Should We Do About SERPS?") [options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Social Security (MISC 111 (85) 14") [SERPS; other social security measures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd minute to MT (MISC 111: Review of Social Security: State-Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)) [Hurd now in favour of retaining SERPS whilst limiting open-ended nature of commitment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [analysis of the combined impact of proposed changes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Review of Social Security: The Next Steps") [thoughts on the proposed abolition/modification of the state-earnings-related pension scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC 111 tomorrow") [Social Security review: summary of papers for the meeting; proposed Cabinet Office further study on impact of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Cost of SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Social Security reform: "If we are driven back to draining SERPS rather than abolishing it, it is important to set fairly penal rates for those remaining in SERPS. Norman Fowler should be invited to produce final proposals along these lines"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to Fowler ("Social Security Reforms") ["universally and vociferously criticised in Northern Ireland"; highlights specific issues; "will need to have convincing arguments in defending the Government's position"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Lord Hailsham letter to Tony Newton ("Green Paper Proposals for New Pension Arrangements") ["county courts are quite inappropriate for your proposals regarding coercive orders"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: notes on 'how SERPS works' & on proposed reforms; MT notes that she wishes to discuss] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Social Security: Meeting on 31 October") ["to consider Mr Fowler's revised proposals on SERPS"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Social Security") ["Norman Fowler and I have reached an agreement on this programme. I summarise the position in this minute"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Pensions") [savings on SERPS: key figures based on amended Fowler proposals; contracting-out; presentation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Reform") ["I would like to discuss with you informally the options open to us and their political consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Fowler") ["wants to make sure you understand the political difficulties of the proposals he is being pushed into making... You are not willing to see public expenditure figures threatened"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler") [Social Security reform: White Paper: proposed workaround to avoid internal government disagreements becoming public] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Tony Newton) ["MISC 111": Social Security reform: "discussion centred on the number of gainers and losers under the proposals"] [released Dec 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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