Archive

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)

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

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83 Jul 21 Thu Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS work: publication") [MT proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 21 Thu Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS report on Higher Education") [background; outline & attached report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 21 Thu Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Handling of work on nationalised industries following disbandment of the Central Policy Review Staff") [measures taken & next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 13 Wed Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to CPRS (disbandment of CPRS) [logistical considerations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 16 Thu Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("CPRS") [press Q+A on disbandment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 16 Thu Government machinery: CPRS letter to MT (closure of the CPRS) [Robert Young protests & requests meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 15 Wed Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The CPRS") [advice to MT to inform Cabinet that CPRS to be closed down & to follow up with press announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 13 Mon Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Machinery of Government at the centre": closure of CPRS; amalgamation of MPO with Cabinet Office; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 10 Fri Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Machinery of Government at the centre") [future of CPRS; MPO; Rayner Unit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 21 Thu Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [MT rules out any further long-term work] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 7 Thu Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [papers on education, pensions & intellectual property rights; MT requests to see drafts] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 31 Mon Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("CPRS report on State Monopolies") [main recommendations; Policy Unit minute criticising report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 5 Wed Government machinery: CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS staffing plans") [reduction] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 24 Fri Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [reduction in CPRS staff] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tue 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 Nov 29 Mon Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("CPRS") [work programme; staffing] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 26 Fri 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 24 Wed 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 19 Fri 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 Fri 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]