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1983 Oct 3 - 1984 Jan 25
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PREM19/1174
Civil service (Long-term management and manpower policy; Civil Service manpower; personnel work in Civil Service; the extension of unified grading; equal opportunities) (Part 14)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 368
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Executive, Executive (appointments)

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Date Value Title
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Civil service: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("DoE Annual Report and Financial Statement") ["may consider it a regular part of our means of informing [public]... about our work"; Turnbull annotation for MT: "You might like to see an example of a Departmental Report"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Minor Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Publicity for Open Structure Appointments") ['The Times' proposal to publish appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 10 Mo Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Obligations of Civil Service Managers - "Negative Noting"") ["...of every individual's participation in industrial action... the most effective system would be the noting of individual personal files... such an announcement [at this time] could be damaging to our other policies"; MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 13 Th Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Qualifications") ["discussion document which... considers "The role of qualifications in the post-recruitment development of civil servants for administrative work"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Civil Service Manpower") ["I have now agreed... target [reduction] figures... The outstanding issue is civilian manpower in the Ministry of Defence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major Civil service: Jenkin minute to MT ("Regional Directors in the North and the East Midlands") ["Four of our eight regional offices are "twinned"... separately based... but share the same Regional Director... twinning is not working"; MT "reluctantly" agrees to creation of new posts] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 27 Th Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe PS letter to No.10 (Parliamentary Debate on the Civil Service) ["Government's achievements on manpower and the search for efficiency and effectiveness will form the core of the Minister's speech"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 31 Mo Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Obligations of Civil Service Managers and Noting of Files") [MT "content with the [Standing Group on Industrial Action] proposals relating to obligations but had reservations about the recommendation that there should be no change in the policy that industrial action is not formally recorded"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work in the Civil Service") [findings of study into suspected "gross disparity in the number of people employed... compared with... private sector"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 11 Fr Minor Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to Brittan ("Responsibility for Discipline in the Civil Service") [comments of particular points in the proposed guidance] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 15 Tu Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") ["the unions recognise that we are entitled to proceed without their agreement. I therefore... [intend] to do so"; imposition of new pay rates] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 16 We Major Civil service: Jopling letter to Jenkin (MAFF establishments served by Defence 'dedicated' District Works Officers) ["views on your proposals... that the particularly high proportion of... [such] establishments... might suffer a deterioration of service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 21 Mo Major Civil service: MT minute to Heseltine (staff reductions in the Civil Service) [MT pressing for larger reductions in response to request from Heseltine for clarification of conclusions agreed at recent Cabinet meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 25 Fr Major Civil service: Jenkin minute to MT ("Personnel Work in the Civil Service) [relaxation of central controls] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Publication of Report on Race Relations: Review of Personnel Policies and Procedures") [background/trade union attitudes; PQs; media handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [MT concern about 'Equal Opportunity Officers' proposal: "nonsense"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 21 We Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Brittan PS ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 22 Th Major Civil service: Heseltine letter to No.10 (Government efficiency programme) [progress report on Ministry of Defence measures] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [early retirement scheme; efficiency scrutiny of means used to identify & develop internal talent] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 12 Th Major Civil service: No.10 minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [Lord Gowrie proposal for early retirement scheme: "should want to be sure that spending £6 million to secure 100 additional retirements would enable a substantial improvement... in the upward flow of good staff"] [declassified Jan 2014]