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1982 Nov 2 - 1983 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1042
Government machinery (Promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste: the Rayner Scrutiny Programme 1982/83) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 386
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82 Nov 4 Thu Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("HMI Reports") [difference of views over proposed announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Home Office proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Walker letter to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Agriculture proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Jenkin minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Industry proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Howell minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983") [Transport proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Heseltine minute to MT ("1983 Scrutiny Programme") [Defence proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Lord Chancellor proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Fowler minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: DHSS Scrutiny Programme") [proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 11 Fri Government machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercise 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Trade proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 10 Thu Government machinery: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercise 1983") [Scottish Office proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 10 Thu Government machinery: Prior letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Northern Ireland proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 10 Thu Government machinery: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General letter to No.10 ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [scrutiny "would not be appropriate"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 8 Tue Government machinery: Younger letter to MT ("Scrutiny of HM Inspectorate of Schools in Scotland") [written reply to Parliamentary Question; MT request for redraft] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 8 Tue Government machinery: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Rayner Scrutiny of HMI in England and Wales") ["attached draft texts for the policy document and Parliamentary Answer"; sensitivities around MT request for redraft] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 4 Fri Government machinery: Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Scrutiny Programme") [response notifying non-participation in 1983] [declassified Aug 2013]