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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/6
Civil Service (Manpower Freeze) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2009 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 198
Themes: Executive

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Date Value Title
79 Sep 7 Fr Major Civil Service: Soames paper ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service") [Soames: "less than 10% would not be an acceptable outcome"] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 10 Mo Major Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soames-Channon) [reduction in the size of the Civil Service] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 12 We Major Civil Service: Hunt briefing for MT ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service (C(79) 38)") [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 12 We Major Civil Service: Nott minute to MT ("Further Reductions in the Civil Service") [support for Soames' 10 per cent reduction target] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 13 Th Major Civil Service: Hunt minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") ['star chamber' on Civil Service reduction] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 14 Fr Major Civil Service: Soames letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (need for Treasury to meet 10 per cent saving in staff costs) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 8 Mo Major Civil Service: Lankester minute to MT (briefing on press stories) [rate support grant, Property Services Agency job cuts] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 18 Th Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Soames (Treasury staff cuts) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 19 Fr Major Civil Service: Carrington minute to Soames ("Staff Cuts") [FCO staff reductions] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 19 Fr Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service") ["I am deeply disappointed by what has so far emerged"] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 29 Mo Major Civil Service: Pym minute to MT ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service - (C(79)51)") ["There are aspects of the Lord President's proposals...which worry me considerably"] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 31 We Major Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service (C(79) 51)") [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 31 We Major Civil Service: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor at 0930 on Thursday, 1 November") [pre-meeting briefing] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 21 We Major Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service (C(79) 57)") [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 28 We Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Staff Numbers") [first monthly report on size of Civil Service] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 9 Su Major Civil Service: Paymaster General's Office speaking note for Ministers ("Civil Service Manpower Cuts") [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 20 Th Major Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nott ("Further Action to Reduce the Size of the Civil Service: Visible Trade Statistics") [25 per cent cut to staff at Customs and Excise Statistical Office] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr Major Civil Service: Channon minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") ["I believe we need to press yet more strongly for reductions in the size of the Civil Service"] [declassified 2009]