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1981 Mar 9 - 1981 Sep 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/409
Civil service (Long term management and manpower policy; Sir Derek Rayner's recommendations for reforms; Civil Service numbers and costs; chain of command review; efficiency) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 288
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Date Value Title
81 Mar 11 We Major Civil Service: MT letter to Chalker (successful introduction of Datalink in DHSS Offices) [letter of congratulations] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 31 Tu Major Civil Service: Joseph minute to MT ("Manpower in the Department of Industry") [explanation of "huge" numbers of Civil Servants in DoI] [declassified 2011]
81 May 5 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office (accelerated promotion and premature retirement of Civil Servants) [MT's views on correspondence between colleagues] [declassified 2011]
81 May 5 Tu Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("White Paper: Efficiency in the Civil Service") [first draft] [declassified 2011]
81 May 8 Fr Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Numbers") [update on size on Civil Service; increasing unemployment likely to lead to increase in size of Civil Service] [declassified 2011]
81 May 27 We Major Civil Service: Richard Shepherd MP letter to MT ("Rayner "Lasting Reforms"") [request for more information on work of Derek Rayner] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mo Major Civil Service: MT letter to Richard Shepherd MP (work of Derek Rayner) [response to request for more information on work of Derek Rayner] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 17 We Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Chain of Command") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 20 Mo Major Civil Service: Priestley minute to Rickett ("Chain of Command: The Open Structure and Below") [comments on Soames' minute] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 24 Fr Major Civil Service: Whitmore minute to MT ("Chain of Command in the Civil Service") [comments on Soames' minute and Rayner's response; MT annotates] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Th Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") [update on size of Civil Service] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fr Major Civil Service: Hayhoe minute to MT ("Charging for Civil Service College Courses") [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 4 Tu Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Chain of Command") [Civil Service reform: MT comments on Soames' minute] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Chain of Command") [Soames' response to MT's comments on Civil Service reform] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 25 Tu Major Civil Service: Rickett minute to MT ("Chain of Command") [comments on Soames' minute on Civil Service reform] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 27 Th Major Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Chain of Command") [MT's response to Soames' minute on Civil Service reform] [declassified 2011]