1979 May 17 - 1980 Jan 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/920
Social services (Uprating of social security benefits) (Part 1)
Document type: | File list item |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
Classification: | Secret |
Page count: | 79 |
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Date | Value | Title |
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79 May 17 Th | Major | Social services: No.10 minute for MT (“Pensions uprating”) [DHSS certain that legislation will be required] [declassified 2012] |
79 May 23 We | Major | Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Uprating of social security benefits”) [CPRS supports breaking link between pensions & earnings] [declassified 2012] |
79 May 31 Th | Major | Social services: Jenkin letter to Biffen (colleagues’ doubt about extending waiting period for sickness and unemployment benefits) [shift from 3 to 6 days remains best option] [declassified 2012] |
79 Jun 6 We | Major | Social services: MT letter to Bill Sirs of Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (long-term unemployed) [shares his concern, will not anticipate Jenkin statement] [declassified 2012] |
79 Jun 12 Tu | Major | Social services: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Statement on uprating of social security benefits”) [MT approves draft; ends pensions uprating in line with earnings, while maintaining link with prices] [declassified 2012] |
79 Oct 2 Tu | Major | Social services: Jenkin minute to MT (“Implementation of social security uprating”) [MT agrees no change to uprating timetable] [declassified 2012] |
79 Nov 1 Th | Major | Social services: Biffen letter to Jenkin (“Statutory provision for supplementary benefit uprating”) [“Sooner or later we are going to have to ask how far we can afford expenditure on this scale”] [declassified 2012] |
79 Dec 5 We | Major | Social services: Jenkin letter to St. John-Stevas (Social Security Bill) [timing of second reading] [declassified 2012] |
80 Jan 9 We | Major | Social services: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer) [pensions, social security benefits, EEC budget; Ryrie; MLR] [declassified 2012] |
80 Jan 10 Th | Major | Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [maintain indexation of pensions; possible deindexing of child benefit, reduction child element of supplementary benefit, angling for Dutch support on EEC budget] [declassified 2012] |