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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 Oct 27 Th Major Economic policy: Butler minute for Turnbull (MISC 99 “Star Chamber” update) [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 19 We Major Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [press line and MT procedural decision] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [Defence & Social Security; MISC group] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 26 Mo Major 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 8 Th Major 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 Aug 12 Fr Major 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 Sep 12 Mo Major 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 27 Tu Major Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Historic public expenditure to GDP ratios”) [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 6 Th Major Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Public Expenditure: experience abroad”) [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Economic policy: Howe minute to Rees (“BBC external services”) [MT concerns about “increasing pay… while retaining overmanning and inefficiency”] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 27 Th Major Economic policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS (“Publication of monthly PSBR figures”) [move to focus on public sector rather than central government borrowing] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Economic policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“LTPE”) [long term public expenditure debate] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 31 We Major Economic policy: Ingham minute to No.10 (“Public expenditure: public debate”) [“confusion reigns”] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 9 Tu Major Economic policy: John Stanley APS letter to Rees APS (Public Expenditure Survey 1983) [dispute over Defence baseline] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Economic policy: MT Personal Minute to Cabinet Ministers (“Long term patterns of public expenditure”) [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (Public expenditure review: Overseas Development Agency) [Aid programme, pensions and Diplomatic wing] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; currency] [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 1 Mo Minor Economic policy: No.10 letter to Management & Personnel Office (“Public expenditure”) [charge rates for use of MOD service personnel at Chequers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Expenditure”) [follow-up to Rees bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Economic policy: No.10 note to MT (Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey) [briefing: key points] [declassified 2013]