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1979 May 6 - 1982 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/666
Cabinet (Cabinet committee structure and membership) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 144
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79 May 6 Sun Cabinet: Hunt minute to MT ("Cabinet Committees") [recommendations for main Cabinet standing Committees; MT: "Please keep the committees down at the start. They have a tendency to grow anyway"] [declassified 2012]
79 May 8 Tue Cabinet: Stowe minute to Hunt (MT's thoughts on terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees) [declassified 2012]
79 May 8 Tue Cabinet: Stowe minute to MT (terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees: summary) [declassified 2012]
79 May 14 Mon Cabinet: Hunt minute to Stowe (membership of Cabinet Committees: Paymaster General) [declassified 2012]
79 Jun 1 Fri Cabinet: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (membership of Cabinet Committees: Paymaster General) [MT agrees that Maude can attend E, H and L Committees as an observer] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 6 Tue Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Government Changes: Cabinet Committees") [membership of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 8 Thu Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Government Changes: Cabinet Committees") [membership of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 16 Fri Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("MISC 7 - Membership") [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 6 Fri Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (statistics on meetings of Cabinet and Cabinet sub-committees: 1980 versus 1978) [MT 'pleased' with fall in number of meetings] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 14 Mon Cabinet: Whitmore minute to Armstrong (MT's thoughts on recomposition of Cabinet Committees) [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 15 Tue Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Committee") [membership and terms of reference] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 16 Wed Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Cabinet Committees") [proposals for changes in composition of Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 17 Thu Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (proposals for changes in membership of E Committee on Economic Strategy: position of David Howell) [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 23 Wed Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Changes in Cabinet Committees") [membership of MISC 14 and MISC 56] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 12 Mon Cabinet: Tebbit minute to MT (argues that Parkinson should be a member of Legislation (L) Committee) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 21 Wed Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (membership of group on public expenditure) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 22 Thu Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (membership of group on public expenditure: Chief Whip does not want to be a member) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 9 Mon Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("The Ministerial Sub-Committee on Public Service Pay (E(PSP))") [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 12 Thu Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT ("The Ministerial Sub-Committee on Industrial Relations in the Civil Service") [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 5 Fri Cabinet: Armstrong minute to MT (statistics on meetings of Cabinet and Cabinet sub-committees: 1981 versus 1981) [number of meetings falls less rapidly: "I am afraid that Ministers are winning"] [declassified 2012]