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1981 Dec 24 - 1983 Jul 25
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1045
Government machinery (Future of Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS); CPRS work programme for 1982; Prime Minister's dissatisfaction with CPRS; abolition of CPRS)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 238
Any docs withheld? 1

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81 Dec 24 Th Major Government machinery: Director of CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS programme of work for 1982") ["You asked that I should suggest a programme... that would enable us to contribute to the development of Government strategy for the next five years"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 12 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work for 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 14 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Armstrong, Ibbs) ["CPRS programme of work, 1982"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jan 21 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("CPRS work programme 1982") [details] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Feb 4 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to CPRS ("CPRS studies on unemployment and the black economy") [MT request for Treasury to be involved] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 5 Th Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT (CPRS: future work programme) [study into reasons for continuing expansion of public sector] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 31 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) ["CPRS work programme"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 2 Th Major Government machinery: Walters minute to MT ("CPRS Unemployment Study") ["virtually all their proposals have appeared before and have been extensively discussed... the proposals... are not at all incisive and lack precision"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 10 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Strategic meeting: Monday at 1800") ["an opportunity for the CPRS to hear direct from you your thought about the gaps in policywhich need to be plugged over the next year or two... morale... probably bruised by the mauling their paper received at Cabinet"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 6 We Major Government machinery: CPRS minute to No.10 ("CPRS work programme") [MT unhappy with proposals on trade unions and pensions] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 15 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [work programme] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 26 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("CPRS report on the State Monopolies") [MT critical of report; Policy Unit recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 17 We Major Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (CPRS remit) [MT "asked me to think about possible new tasks... There ought to be a central capacity to take a view on choices between one programme and another"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [CPRS papers; Policy Unit minute identifying shortcomings of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("CPRS study of the Unions") [advice on how to respond to CPRS proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 24 We Major Government machinery: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford letter to No.10 (Paper for the Manchester Statistical Society) [Professor John Ashworth, former Chief Scientist within CPRS: thoughts on crisis management & the functions of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 26 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS") [papers covering staffing/work programme; advice to MT to meet with John Sparrow & Robert Armstrong; MT: "For what they are doing, they have far too many staff. The sooner we cut down the better"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 29 Mo Major Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("CPRS") [work programme; staffing] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong, John Sparrow) ["Central Policy Review Staff": work programme; staffing. MT "not happy at present about the way in which the CPRS was working"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 24 Fr Major Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [reduction in CPRS staff] [declassified Aug 2013]