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PREM19/848
National health (Nurses' and midwives' pay; report of Standing Commission on Pay Comparability (Clegg report)) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 201
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Date Value Title
79 Oct 17 We Major Health: Jenkin letter to Joseph (“Pay of top nurses in the NHS”) [“the agreement is inept and foolish in the extreme”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 3 Th Major Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Bank of England and Treasury appointments, Clegg Commission, Budget date] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 3 Th Major Health: MT letter to Professor Hugh Clegg (report on Nurses’ pay) [“costly recommendations… will need to consider the whole future of the Clegg Commission”] [declassified 2012]
80 May 28 We Major Health: Jenkin PS briefing for MT (“Nurses’ pay negotiations”) [MT meeting with Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council] [declassified 2012]
80 May 29 Th Major Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Vaughan, delegation) [“Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jun 21 Sa Major Health: MT letter to Leslie Huckfield MP (Nurses’ pay) [rebuts accusation of “insult to the nursing profession”] [declassified 2012]
80 Jul 22 Tu Major Health: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Nurses’ pay”) [options] [declassified 2012]
80 Aug 28 Th Major Health: Minister for Health letter to Chairman of the Staff Side, Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council (Nurses’ pay) [possible ways to address relative decline] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 5 Th Major Health: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Nurses’ pay) [“Government’s position may become untenable”] [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 18 Th Major Health: Jenkin letter to Howe (“Nurses’ pay”) [“Acceptance… of the six per cent offer would be a considerable prize”] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 11 Fr Major Health: Fowler minute to MT (Nurses’ pay) [meeting with Staff Side of the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 16 We Major Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Nurses’ pay”) [no short-term solution] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 17 Th Major Health: Fowler briefing for MT (meeting between the Prime Minister and the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council) [“objective should be to prevent a confrontation”] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 18 Fr Major Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Gerard Vaughan, Kenneth Stowe, delegation) [“Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council”] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 23 We Major Health: MT letter to Councillor Harry Gill (Nurses’ pay) [MT on draft reply: “what a terrible draft letter this is!”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Th Major Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Joseph, Heseltine, Tebbit, Janet Young, Peter Blaker, Gerard Vaughan) [public service pay] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 25 Mo Major Health: Hoskyns minute to Scholar (“Nurses and NHS pay”) [aim to avoid a rigid formula for pay scales] [declassified 2012]