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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Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 33 of 33
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 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 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 Aug 31 Tu | Major | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) ["CPRS work programme"] [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] |
| 82 Oct 15 Fr | Major | Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Sparrow) [work programme] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 83 Jun 13 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 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 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 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 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] |