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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 7 Fri Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey”) [priority Ministries to target for savings] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fri Economic policy: No.10 note to MT (Public Expenditure: 1983 Survey) [briefing: key points] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fri Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [Defence & Social Security; MISC group] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 10 Mon Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Rees) [“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fri Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Expenditure”) [follow-up to Rees bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fri Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (Public expenditure review: Overseas Development Agency) [Aid programme, pensions and Diplomatic wing] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fri Economic policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“LTPE”) [long term public expenditure debate] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 17 Mon Economic policy: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 18 Tue Economic policy: Rees minute to MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [bilateral discussions with spending Ministers] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 19 Wed Economic policy: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (nationalised energy industries) [“increasingly concerned at the Treasury’s attitude”] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 19 Wed Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public expenditure - maintaining the impetus”) [clear public message needed to put pressure on Ministers to comply] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 19 Wed Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [press line and MT procedural decision] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Economic policy: Whitelaw letter to John Wakeham MP (“Ministerial Group on public expenditure: MISC 99”) [Conservative backbench reactions to proposals] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 26 Wed Economic policy: Rees PS letter to Fowler PS (“Social Security programme”) [public expenditure review] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 27 Thu Economic policy: Butler minute for Turnbull (MISC 99 “Star Chamber” update) [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 27 Thu 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]