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1981 Nov 11 - 1983 Feb 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1044
Government machinery (Internal audit and financial control in government) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 195
Any docs withheld? 1

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83 Jan 19 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["Norman St John-Stevas MP is promoting the... Bill to change the role and status of the Comptroller and Auditor General... At their meeting on 16 December... the Cabinet considered what the Government's attitude to the Bill should be... The main conclusions were as follows"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tu Major Government machinery: Biffen PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["The Lord President's view... is that... a Cabinet Minister should speak on behalf of the Government at Second Reading and take the Bill through Committee"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 26 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised industries: the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") ["The [Private Member's] Bill's promoters are so far reluctant to compromise... Parliament and Government share a common objective in trying to improve the efficiency of the nationalised industries and both recognise that each has a role to play in supervising them. I set out below some ideas which we have developed. These might provide a way forward"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 26 We Major Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("The Civil List, and the Stevas Bill") ["You asked for a short note on the extent to which... [the] Bill protects the Civil List position. The attached note shows that it does so pretty well, but that the problem of possible Amendments of course remains"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 3 Th Major Government machinery: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") [""Value for Money" audit of the nationalised industries is clearly the central issue, and if we can find a satisfactory solution in this area we should be better placed to combat the other unacceptable features of the Bill"; proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 9 We Major Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill") ["Our opposition to the Bill centres on these clauses, which would would permit the C&AG to investigate nationalised industries... together with the proposed repeal of the power to submit nationalised industries to an efficiency audit by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission"] [declassified Aug 2013]