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1980 Oct 1 - 1980 Nov 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/152
Civil Service (Long-term management and manpower policy: efficiency of central government; Civil Service manpower; Sir Derek Rayner’s recommendations for reforms) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 182
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80 Sep 29 Mon Civil Service: Record of conversation (Rayner-Cole-Hollis, Rayner-Ray Whitney MP) ["Prime Minister's and Cabinet Department, Australian Federal Government"] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 1 Wed Civil Service: Priestley minute to Pattison ("Department of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, Australian Federal Government") ["I have to report that Sir DR was not impressed by Mr Whitney's observations"] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 13 Mon Civil Service: Pattison minute to MT (Soames' paper on Civil Service manpower) [draft for MT's comments] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 14 Tue Civil Service: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Civil Service Manpower: GCHQ") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 15 Wed Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soames-Rayner) [Civil Service reform and Central Government efficiency] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 21 Tue Civil Service: Carrington minute to MT ("Manpower Cuts") [response to Soames' paper] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 22 Wed Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Civil Service Manpower: The 630,000 Target (C(80) 56)") [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 28 Tue Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 29 Wed Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Numbers") [staffing levels as of 1 October] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 31 Fri Civil Service: Ibbs minute to Pattison ("Pay and Performance") [supports performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 2 Sun Civil Service: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [misgivings about proposed system of performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 3 Mon Civil Service: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Pay and Performance") [supports performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 6 Thu Civil Service: Hailsham minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [misgivings about proposed system of performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 6 Thu Civil Service: Nott minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [alternative to performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 7 Fri Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [supports principle of performance-related pay in the Civil Service, but expresses anxiety about details of Soames' proposal] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 7 Fri Civil Service: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("Civil Service Numbers") [details of reduction in Civil Service staffing levels, April 1979-October 1980] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 7 Fri Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower Reductions: Departmental Targets") [suggests early announcement of details of savings in Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 10 Mon Civil Service: Howell minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [alternative to Soames' proposed system of performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 10 Mon Civil Service: Prior minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [misgivings about proposed system of performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 11 Tue Civil Service: Jenkin minute to MT ("Pay and Performance") [misgivings about proposed system of performance-related pay in the Civil Service] [declassified 2010]