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1980 Jan 22 - 1981 Apr 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/921
Social services (Uprating of social security benefits) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 176
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81 Apr 3 Fri Social services: Jenkin minute to MT (“Social security benefits price protection”) [rely on MT pledge on pensions - do not give statutory form, but define pensioners] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 9 Mon Social services: Jenkin letter to Howe (“Social Security Bill”) [correspondence on legislation for one percent reduction in benefits] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 11 Wed Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Parliamentary Affairs: Social Security Bill”) [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 16 Fri Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Social Security benefits - legislation for the 1 per cent reduction”) [clawing back excess uprating made in Nov 1980] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 9 Tue Social services: No.10 minute to MT (“Payment of Social Security benefits”) [Jenkin statement to Parliament on Bill "went quiet well"] [declassified 2012]
80 Jul 28 Mon Social services: Jenkin minute to MT (uprating order for Child Benefit) [MT: “I am very much against this”; but Lankester notes she acquiesced] [declassified 2012]
80 Oct 29 Wed Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: the Social Security Programme”) [savings proposed] [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 26 Wed Social services: No.10 minute to MT (Social Security (No. 2) Bill) [tight timetable - MT concerns at early guillotine] [declassified 2012]
80 Feb 20 Wed Social services: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Public expenditure announcements: Social Security”) [Chancellor’s minute of 15 Feb] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 23 Wed Social services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure and the Economic Outlook”) [Lankester note on Howe-Jenkin agreements] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 10 Tue Social services: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Statement on the uprating of social security benefits”) [draft for delivery] [declassified 2012]
80 Jun 9 Mon Social services: MT letter to John Silkin (invalidity benefit) [making it taxable] [declassified 2012]
80 Apr 11 Fri Social services: Conservative Research Department briefing for MPs (Social Security (No. 2) Bill) [second reading, plus note from Paymaster General’s Office] [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 17 Mon Social services: MT letter to Sir Bernard Ledwidge (Child Benefit) [“Our prime objective must be to get the economy moving”] [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 14 Fri Social services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (“Social Security announcement”) [Bill & possible amendments] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 29 Tue Social services: MT letter to Andrew Bowden MP (Public expenditure announcements on social security: benefits shortfall) [“We must face… reality”] [declassified 2012]