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PREM19/869
Parliament (MPs' pay and pensions; Top Salaries Review Body report on Parliamentary pay; report by Select Committee) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 165
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Date Value Title
80 Dec 3 We Major Parliament: St. John-Stevas letter to MT (“Pay and pension of MPs”) [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 5 Mo Major Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Tax allowances to Ministers and MPs”) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 11 We Major Parliament: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Motions on MPs’ pay and pensions”) [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 8 We Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Pay of MPs, Ministers and Junior Ministers in the House of Lords”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Pay of Ministers and Junior Ministers in the House of Lords”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 14 Th Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary allowances”) [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 30 Tu Major Parliament: Pym letter to MT (“Linkage of MPs’ pay”) [proposed method of periodic salary review: Government opposed] [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 30 Tu Major Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Tax allowances for Ministers and MPs”) [MT “disappointed”] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 26 We Major Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (Ministerial tax allowances) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 14 Th Major Parliament: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Extension of the spouse warrant system to Members’ children”) [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 31 We Major Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“MPs’ pay”) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 6 Tu Major Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (c.1100Z) (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Biffen, Parkinson, Tebbit, Michael Jopling) [“MPs’ pay”] [declassified 2012]
82 May 24 Mo Major Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cabinet: MPs’ pay”) [“result could be widely resented”] [declassified 2012]
82 May 24 Mo Major Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future arrangements for settling the pay of MPs”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 7 Mo Major Parliament: Biffen letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Future arrangements for settling MPs’ pay”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 25 Fr Major Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“MPs’ allowances”) [“further concessions will merely reinforce… weakness over pay”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major Parliament: MT letter to Lord Plowden, Chairman Top Salaries Review Body (Parliamentary pay & allowances) [declassified 2012]