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PREM19/1177
Civil service (Pay and pensions; report of Megaw Committee on pay and conditions; pay negotiations) (Part 13)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 239
Themes: Employment, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Executive

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Date Value Title
82 Nov 22 Mo Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Pay and Grading Structures") [merit pay; unified grading] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 23 Tu Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Megaw") ["certain additional points on the Megaw proposals on which [MT]... wished to have further advice"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 1 We Major Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E: Megaw") ["there is no point in resisting the recommendation of the Chancellor's Group... to the effect that Megaw should be accepted as a basis for seeking to negotiate a new pay system. The important decision for E is over safeguards"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Annuality and the Review Bodies") [MT "wondered whether we should be encouraging the Review Bodies to move away from automatic annual pay increases"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 16 Th Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw and 1983 pay negotiations for the non-industrial civil service") [draft letter to unions] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Civil service: Fowler minute to MT ("DHSS Local Office Strike") [report; "both unions will be recommending a return to work... This has been a strike about staff numbers"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 17 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal): Vereker to Mount ("The 1983 Civil Service pay negotiations") ["The Official Group... had its first discussion today of the line to be taken... the unions are in tremendous disarray... more radical options open to us, including.... offering nothing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 25 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal): Vereker to Mount ("Civil Service pay negotiations") [opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 4 Fr Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The 1983 non-industrial civil service pay negotiations") [report on first meeting of Ministerial Group; proposed opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 10 Th Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Civil Service pay negotiations") ["first meeting with the Civil Service Unions... takes place tomorrow... need to get our general reaction to the [1983 pay] claim firmly on record"; press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 17 Th Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service pay: the Government's opening offer") [Ministerial Group recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 2 We Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Megaw Report: subsidiary issues relating to pay") [Ministerial Group recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The 1983 non-industrial civil service pay negotiations: attitudinal survey") ["What we have in mind is a general survey on pay and conditions... which would reveal... [what] staff are likely to regard as reasonable"; MT against the proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 9 We Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Megaw") [possibility of "big "catching-up" pay increase... the Treasury has had some work done... by outside consultants... results are reassuring"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 14 Mo Major Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal): John Vereker to Nicholas Owen ("Civil Service Pay") [record of discussion with Peter le Cheminant on current position of negotiations with unions] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Scholar ("Civil Service Pay") [summary of latest discussion in MISC 66; outline of key questions for Government; advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 23 We Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [non-industrial civil service pay] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 23 We Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Non-industrial civil service pay negotiations") [latest position; "difficult judgements to be made here, and you may wish to discuss them with me"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tu Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service pay negotiations") [record of discussion with leaders of Civil Service white collar unions; assessment of current state of negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 30 We Major Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Heseltine, Fowler, Baroness Young, Tebbit, Barney Hayhoe) ["Civil Service pay negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]