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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1039
Government machinery (Departments' programmes for next five years; preparation of 'forward look' reports)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 73
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Date Value Title
82 Sep 13 Mo Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Five Year Forward Look) [commissioning of Departmental responses] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 16 Th Major Government machinery: MT letter to Whitelaw (Five Year Forward Look) [commissioning of Departmental responses] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Government machinery: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Five Year Forward Look) [explanation for delayed Departmental response] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Forward Look") [acknowledgement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Five-Year Forward Look") [update on responses & proposed next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Government machinery: Channon PS letter to No.10 (Five-Year Forward Looks) [Arts & Libraries] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 30 Th Major Government machinery: Edwards letter to MT ("Forward Look") [Wales: Departmental programme for the next five years] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 5 We Major Government machinery: Jenkin PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Five Year Forward Looks) [copy of Department of Industry's five year plan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 18 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Five Year Forward Looks") ["whether the Treasury should comment on the implications for expenditure"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 20 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Five Year Forward Looks" - MT asks Treasury to examine cost implications] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 31 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Five Year Forwards Looks") [MT request for analysis] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo Major Government machinery: King letter to Edwards ("Forward Look") [water charges] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 4 Fr Major Government machinery: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Aims of industrial policy") [Five Year Forward Look: presentations to audiences outside Government: background note] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 17 Th Major Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Forward Look: public expenditure") [interim assessment costing Ministerial contributions to Forward Look: expenditure set to rise in real terms, compounding "the problems of reducing taxation and borrowing"] [declassified Aug 2013]