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1980 May 20 - 1981 Dec 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/545
Nationalised industries (Pay of Chairmen and Board members) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 223
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81 Jun 26 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Fowler minute to MT (British Rail Chairman should be persuaded to continue) [MT: "He is spending large sums on advertising to pressurise the Govt to give bigger subsidies to BR. This hardly commends him to me"] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 2 We Major Nationalised Industries: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Incentives for NI Chairmen: E(NI) 3 December 1981") [performance-related pay] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Fowler minute to MT ("Transport - Nationalised Industry Boards") [board appointments and pay: National Bus Company, British Rail] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 3 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("New Arrangements for Determining the Salaries of Nationalised Industry Board Members") [comments on Soames' proposals] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Fowler minute to MT (pay of nationalised industry board members) [presentation of Government stance] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 2 We Major Nationalised Industries: Gregson briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industry Board Members' Salaries") [performance-related pay] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 8 We Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Sir Michael Edwardes' Salary") [details of Edwardes' salary as British Leyland Chair, following press speculation] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 1 We Major Nationalised Industries: Wolfson minute to MT (pay of nationalised industry board members) [argues against pay rises: "Are we absolutely convinced that we have no alternative but to re-appoint people who are fundamentally opposed to our plans?"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 2 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Soames minute to MT ("New Arrangements for Public Board Salaries") [draft Parliamentary statement] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 28 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("New Arrangements for Determining the Pay of Board Members: Scottish Transport Group") [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 9 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's Office letter to No.10 ("Nationalised Industries: Board Salaries") [nationalised industry chairmen feel "badly let down" by the Government] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 17 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: Board Salaries 1981/82") [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 6 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Request From the Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group to See the Prime Minister") [Nationalised Industry board members' pay] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 2 We Major Nationalised Industries: Ibbs minute to Scholar ("Nationalised Industries' Board Salaries") [performance-related pay] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 23 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Pay of Nationalised Industry Board Members: Mr Bosworth and Mr Reid of British Rail") [argues for new appointment at British Rail: major problem is "getting the Board itself to accept the need for rapid and far-reaching changes"] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Ibbs minute to Scholar ("Nationalised Industries: Board Salaries") [MT "very sceptical" about CPRS payment-by-results proposal] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 22 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Sir Robert Marshall of the Nationalised Industries' Chairmen's Group letter to MT (nationalised industries: board salaries) ["the argument of wider economic and political considerations has been used on every occasion since the TSRB's first report in 1972 as a reason for not paying...the salaries recommended"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 27 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to HMT ("Nationalised Industries: Board Salaries") [MT favours performance-related pay for nationalised industry Chairmen] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 18 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industry Board Members' Pay (E(81) 87 and 88)") [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 8 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nationalised Industry Board Salaries") [comments on Soames's proposals] [declassified 2011]