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1983 Aug 1 - 1983 Oct 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/986
Economic policy (Public Spending) (Part 24)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 320
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83 Aug 1 Mon Economic policy: No.10 letter to Management & Personnel Office (“Public expenditure”) [charge rates for use of MOD service personnel at Chequers] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 1 Mon Economic policy: Howe minute to Rees (“BBC external services”) [MT concerns about “increasing pay… while retaining overmanning and inefficiency”] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 5 Fri Economic policy: MT Personal Minute to Cabinet Ministers (“Long term patterns of public expenditure”) [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 9 Tue Economic policy: John Stanley APS letter to Rees APS (Public Expenditure Survey 1983) [dispute over Defence baseline] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 12 Fri Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Public debate in the longer term”) [“our aim is to make press and public face up to the problem”] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 31 Wed Economic policy: Ingham minute to No.10 (“Public expenditure: public debate”) [“confusion reigns”] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 1 Thu Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“1983 report of public expenditure survey”) [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 7 Wed Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“Pay and public expenditure in 1984-85”) [draft press notice & lines to take] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 8 Thu Economic policy: Rees letter to Heseltine (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [proposed Defence budget] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 8 Thu Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to No.10 (Central Government Borrowing Requirement) [monthly update and proposed changes to reporting method] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mon Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983 - October Cabinet”) [proposed handling of budget negotiations with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 26 Mon Economic policy: Chairman of Beecham Group PLC letter to MT (review of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme) [financing of the NHS] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 27 Tue Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Historic public expenditure to GDP ratios”) [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 27 Tue Economic policy: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Long term public expenditure: opening up the debate”) [draft Speaking Note and background for Press] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 4 Tue Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: 1983 survey”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 4 Tue Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; currency] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 6 Thu Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [“Long-term public expenditure”] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 6 Thu Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Public Expenditure: experience abroad”) [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fri Economic policy: Treasury briefing to No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [outstanding issues and draft paper for Cabinet] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fri Economic policy: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Public Expenditure”) [draft Paper for Cabinet] [declassified 2013]