Archive

1980 Apr 10 - 1980 Apr 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/148
Civil Service (Long-term management and manpower policy: efficiency of central government; Civil Service manpower; Sir Derek Rayner’s recommendations for reforms) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 234
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Date Value Title
80 Apr 10 Th Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Civil Service Department ("Civil Service Numbers and Costs") [Civil Service manpower] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 18 Fr Major Civil Service: Channon minute to MT ("Civil Service Numbers and Costs") [amended version of paper] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 18 Fr Major Civil Service: Rayner minute to MT ("The Efficiency of Central Government: Lasting Reforms") [progress report] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 18 Fr Major Civil Service: Rayner minute to MT ("The Efficiency of Central Government: Lasting Reforms") [draft minute and cartoon] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 21 Mo Major Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Civil Service Manpower") [briefing on papers by Channon and Rayner] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 21 Mo Major Civil Service: Channon minute to MT ("The Efficiency of Central Government: Lasting Reforms") [timetable for implementation of Rayner's recommendations] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 21 Mo Major Civil Service: Rayner minute to MT ("The Efficiency of Central Government") [briefing for Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 22 Tu Major Civil Service: Channon minute to MT ("Civil Service Numbers") [Civil Service staffing levels as of 1 April 1980] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 22 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rayner-Channon-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Whitelaw) [Civil Service management and manpower policy] [declassified 2010]