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PREM19/777
Government machinery (Promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste; financial management in the Ministry of Defence; the Scrutiny Programme) (Part 10)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 232

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Date Value Title
81 Sep 21 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to MoD (“Financial management in the Ministry of Defence”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 23 Fr Major Government machinery: Rayner PS minute to Rayner (“Central co-ordination of exercises in the “Efficiency Strategy” 1982”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 27 Tu Major Government machinery: Rayner PS minute to Rayner (“Treasury and CS Committee Enquiry into CS Efficiency and Effectiveness”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 30 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to MoD (“Financial Management in the Ministry of Defence”) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 6 Fr Major Government machinery: Fowler letter to Young (“Complements Review of DHSS local offices”) [“willingness to stand firm and not to accede to Union pressures… establishing a precedent”] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 17 Tu Major Government machinery: Young minute to MT (“Efficiency Strategy for 1982”) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 29 Su Major Government machinery: Rayner minute to MT (“The Efficiency of Central Government”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 2 We Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rayner, Armstrong “The Efficiency of Central Government”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 7 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Young PS (Efficiency Strategy 1982) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 15 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“The Efficiency Strategy 1982: the Scrutiny Programme”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 17 Th Minor Government machinery: Rayner PS minute to No.10 (“Mr Leslie Chapman”) [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 23 We Minor Government machinery: Brittan letter to Young (Parliamentary supplies costs) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 14 Th Minor Government machinery: Heseltine letter to Whitelaw (“Rayner scrutiny of the Custody Guard Service”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 26 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (“The Efficiency Strategy 1982: The Ministry of Defence”) [Rayner and Young disagreement with Nott] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 10 We Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to Rayner PS (“The Scrutiny Programme 1981: Northern Ireland employment service”) [declassified 2012]