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1981 Jun 9 - 1981 Jul 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/403
Civil service (Pay and pensions: public sector pay policy; Civil Service pay dispute; industrial action; membership of independent inquiry;) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 235
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81 Jun 9 Tue Civil Service: Vereker minute to Pattison ("Civil Service Industrial Action") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 Wed Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 Wed Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay: Independent Inquiry") [membership of inquiry] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 Wed Civil Service: TUC General Secretary Len Murray letter to MT ("Civil Service Dispute") ["[I] urge you to reconsider urgently the Government's current rigid stance over negotiations with the civil service unions"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 Wed Civil Service: MT letter to Lord Shepherd (Annual Report of the Civil Service Pay Research Board) [thanks for report] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 Wed Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soames-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Prior-Bancroft-Hoskyns) ["Civil Service Pay: Independent Inquiry"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 11 Thu Civil Service: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Civil Service Pay: Economic Strategy Committee, 9th June") [minute of meeting circulated as a Most Confidential Record] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fri Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fri Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Next Moves on the Civil Service Pay Dispute") [argues against "selective escalation" and in favour of "uniform escalation"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fri Civil Service: MT letter to TUC General Secretary, Len Murray (Civil Service strike) ["I very much regret that the unions are continuing with their disruptive action"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fri Civil Service: Rayner minute to MT (comments on proposed membership of the independent inquiry into Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mon Civil Service: Armstrong minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Dispute") ["I agree [with Hoskyns] that, if we escalate, we should escalate universally and not selectively"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tue Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Non-Industrial Civil Service: Pay Dispute (E(81) 67)") [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tue Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Dispute") [comments on Soames' paper] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 17 Wed Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 19 Fri Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 19 Fri Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Action") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 22 Mon Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Dispute") [chairmanship and membership of proposed inquiry; MT: "We ought to have an Oppn. member on it. Harold Lever would be good"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 22 Mon Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Dispute: Next Steps") [agreed at E Committee that Soames "should announce the Inquiry this week and use the statement for a little sabre rattling"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 23 Tue Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]